Psychosocial and immune effects of self-hypnosis training for stress management throughout the first semester of medical school

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 249-263

  Whitehouse, Wayne G ^a   Dinges, David F ^a,d   Orne, Emily Carota ^a   Keller, Steven E ^b   Bates, Brad L ^a   Bauer, Nancy K ^a   Morahan, Page ^c   Haupt, Barbara A ^a   Carlin, Michele M ^a   Bloom, Peter B ^a   Zaugg, Line ^a   Orne, Martin T ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND VISUAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

examination stress; immunity; lymphocyte proliferation; NK cytotoxicity; self hypnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MENTAL STRESS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAXATION TRAINING;

EID: 8944222111     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006842-199605000-00009     Document Type: Article

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