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Recent Insight on How the Neuroscientific Approach Helps Clinicians

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Vanhaudenhuyse, Audrey, Nyssen, Anne-Sophie, Faymonville, Marie-Elisabeth·2020·OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine

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Hypnosis is a modified state of consciousness widely used to decrease pain perception in research protocols and clinical practice. In recent decades, hypnosis has been increasingly proposed to patients to re-engage their resources and capacities to modulate pain and emotional distress and to improve their treatment and recovery of well-being. Neuroimaging research helps clinicians to understand better how hypnosis works in terms of brain modulation. Hypnotic suggestions dramatically influence the self and environmental consciousness networks as well as the attentional and somatosensorial networks. This explains why the subjects feel disengaged from their external surroundings combined with the modification of sensations related to their body and spontaneous thoughts. In this review, we aim to articulate the clinical and neuroimaging findings related to hypnosis in the context of perception of external (pain) stimuli. We intend to shed light on several mechanisms related to this specific modified state of consciousness that will help in designing randomized and controlled studies in the future.

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  • Several studies have reported clinical benefits of hypnotic, meditative, and psychedelic trances on pain, emotional regulation, sleep, fatigue, stress, cognitive difficulties, and quality of life.

    “Several studies have reported some clinical benefits of hypnotic, meditative and psychedelic trances on pain, emotional regulation, sleep, fatigue, stress, cognitive difficulties and quality of life [43–48].”

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Authors
Vanhaudenhuyse, A., Nyssen, A.-S., & Faymonville, M.-E.
Affiliations
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège (BE)
Venue
OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
Published
2020-05-09
Volume
05
Issue
02
Pages
1-33
ISSN
2573-4393 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3020971341
Cited by
22
References
110
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2
FWCI
1.35
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • ORBi (University of Liège) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Plan National Cancer
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Health Sciences › Dentistry › Oral Surgery › Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Keywords
hypnosis, hypnotic suggestion, pain perception, altered states of consciousness, attentional networks, somatosensory network, self-consciousness, emotional distress, clinical applications of hypnosis

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