Brain Responses to Hypnotic Verbal Suggestions Predict Pain Modulation.
Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) 2021 Carolane Desmarteaux, Anouk Streff, Jen-I Chen et al. 11 citations
Background: The effectiveness of hypnosis in reducing pain is well supported by the scientific literature. Hypnosis typically involves verbal suggestions but the mechanisms by which verbal contents are transformed into predictive signals to modulate perceptual processes remain unclear. We hypothesized that brain activity during verbal suggestions would predict the modulation of responses to...