Poster
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6th Internet World Congress for Biomedical Sciences |
Marcelle Bartolo Abela(1)
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Marcelle Bartolo Abela Hamrun HMR 06 Malta abela@orbit.net.mt |
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Hypnosis has been defined throughout the ages in many different ways, by as many different authors. Currently, in fact psychological, physiological, and psychoanalytical theories of hypnosis abound, although the evidence presented is, more often than not, directly conflicting. A review of recent neurophysiological evidence deriving from EEG, CT, PET, MRI, and intracranial studies indicates, though, that hypnosis is an individual differences phenomenon, i.e, a state of selective attentional and disattentional processes, with converse physiological responses according to hypnotizability, i.e., high or low hypnotizable, which activates a variable, though greater than normal, ability to access affect.
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