Salient findings: A potentially groundbreaking study on the neuroscience of hypnotizability, a critical review of hypnosis' efficacy, and the neurophysiology of conversion disorder

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 87-93

  Nash, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CANCER PAIN; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONVERSION DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PAIN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

BRAIN; CONVERSION DISORDER; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 14644437070     PISSN: 00207144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207140490914199     Document Type: Review

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