The current meta-analysis aimed to quantify the effectiveness of hypnosis for reducing pain
and identify factors that influence efficacy. Six major databases were systematically …

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 …

Background Pain is recognised to have both a sensory dimension (intensity) and an
affective dimension (unpleasantness). Pain feels like a single unpleasant bodily experience …

Pain-induced gamma-band oscillations (GBOs) are one of the most promising biomarkers of
the pain experience. Although GBOs reliably encode pain perception across different …

Several studies have used neuroimaging techniques to investigate brain correlates of the
attentional modulation of pain. Although these studies have advanced the knowledge in the …

When people witness or imagine the pain of another person, their nervous system may react
as if they were feeling that pain themselves. Early neuroscientific evidence indicates that the …

Nociceptive stimuli can induce a transient suppression of electroencephalographic
oscillations in the alpha frequency band (ie, alpha event-related desynchronization, α-ERD) …

Electrophysiological studies in rodents allow recording neural activity during threats with
high temporal and spatial precision. Although fMRI has helped translate insights about the …

Meditation and hypnosis have both been found to attenuate pain; however, little is known
about similarities and differences in the cognitive modulation of pain. Hypnotic and …

Suppression of spontaneous alpha oscillatory activities, interpreted as cortical excitability,
was observed in response to both transient and tonic painful stimuli. The changes of alpha …