Hypnotic suggestion: Opportunities for cognitive neuroscience

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 565-576

  Oakley, David A ^a,b   Halligan, Peter W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ATTENTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COGNITION; DELUSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GUIDED IMAGERY; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; HYPNOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MEMORY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NOCICEPTION; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSATION; THINKING; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; NEUROSCIENCES; SUGGESTION;

EID: 84880782306     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3538     Document Type: Review

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