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Hypnotherapy

Known as: Hypnosis, Hypnotherapies, Mental Health @ None @ Hypnosis @ None @ None @ None @ None 
Therapeutic use of hypnotism. It has been used to treat phobias and anxiety, to manage pain, and to extinguish habits and addictions. (Taber's)
National Institutes of Health

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Alternative MedicineAutogenic TrainingComplementary therapiesHypnosis

Broader (2)

Reduced consciousness/confusionpsychological assessment

Narrower (3)

posthypnotic amnesiaself hypnosissuggestion (therapy)

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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Long term benefits of hypnotherapy for irritable bowel syndrome
Background and aims: There is now good evidence from several sources that hypnotherapy can relieve the symptoms of irritable… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Cortical representation of the sensory dimension of pain.
It is well accepted that pain is a multidimensional experience, but little is known of how the brain represents these dimensions… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
A meta-analysis of hypnotically induced analgesia: How effective is hypnosis?
Abstract Over the past two decades, hypnoanalgesia has been widely studied; however, no systematic attempts have been made to… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Cerebral Mechanisms of Hypnotic Induction and Suggestion
The neural mechanisms underlying hypnotic states and responses to hypnotic suggestions remain largely unknown and, to date, have… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
Is human information processing conscious?
  • M. Velmans
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • 1991
  • Corpus ID: 526378
Abstract Investigations of the function of consciousness in human information processing have focused mainly on two questions: (1… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
EFFECT OF PSYCHOSOCIAL TREATMENT ON SURVIVAL OF PATIENTS WITH METASTATIC BREAST CANCER
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Preferential stimulation of dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens of freely moving rats by ethanol.
The effect of the i.p. administration of ethanol on the release of dopamine (DA) and on the output of its main metabolites… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
CONTROLLED TRIAL OF HYPNOTHERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF SEVERE REFRACTORY IRRITABLE-BOWEL SYNDROME
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
On the permanence of stored information in the human brain.
Many people believe that information that is stored in long-term memory is permanent, citing examples of "retrieval techniques… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Hypnosis in the Relief of Pain
Pain and Hypnosis. Hypnosis. Pain. Controlling Pain. Hypnosis in Pain Control. Hypnosis and Clinical Pain. Cancer. Obstetrics… 
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