Hypnotic suggestion: opportunities for cognitive neuroscience

Oakley, David A. and Halligan, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2784-6690 2013. Hypnotic suggestion: opportunities for cognitive neuroscience. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 14 , pp. 565-576. 10.1038/nrn3538

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Abstract

Hypnosis uses the powerful effects of attention and suggestion to produce, modify and enhance a broad range of subjectively compelling experiences and behaviours. For more than a century, hypnotic suggestion has been used successfully as an adjunctive procedure to treat a wide range of clinical conditions. More recently, hypnosis has attracted a growing interest from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. Recent studies using hypnotic suggestion show how manipulating subjective awareness in the laboratory can provide insights into brain mechanisms involved in attention, motor control, pain perception, beliefs and volition. Moreover, they indicate that hypnotic suggestion can create informative analogues of clinical conditions that may be useful for understanding these conditions and their treatments.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	Nature Publishing Group
ISSN:	1471-003X
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 08:20
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/52438

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