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Hypnosis can offer significant reduction in pain awareness without any effect on non-painful aspects of the subject's perception.
It therefore is most effective in altering perception of acute pain, experts reported at the European Neurological Society Meeting in Rhodos (Greece).

The ways in which hypnosis may reduce a patient's sensitivity to painful stimuli at the level of neuron activity has not been well understood. A study by teams of researchers at the Universities of Liège in Belgium and Copenhagen, Denmark, has now demonstrated that hypnosis can offer significant reduction in pain awareness without any effect on non-painful aspects of the subject's perception. Hypnosis is most effective in altering perception of acute pain, experts reported at the 17th Meeting of the European Neurological Society from June 16 to 20 in Rhodos (Greece).

The study used 13 healthy subjects and tested them twice, once in a normal state and once while hypnotised. During the two sessions functional magnetic resonance imaging, which traces which regions of the brain are active at a given moment, was used to observe how pain was registered at the level of neural mechanisms. Each participant received 200 laser stimuli in increasing intensity on the left hand. They were asked to rate their sensations from no pain perception, on a five point scale, to intense pain. The results then underwent statistical parametrical mapping, which allows researchers to screen out background neural activity from the brain scans and highlight neuron activity related solely to the area under investigation, in this case neural response to pain stimuli.

"Perception of intense pain was significantly altered while participants were under hypnosis", says Dr. Steven Laureys from the Coma Science Group, University of Liège. "Measured by brain activity, hypnosis reduced acute pain perception by about a third. However for levels of pain at the low end of the scale, hypnosis barely altered perception of the stimuli."

The map of the brain scans allowed the research teams to identify which areas of the brain were affected in the hypnotic state. It appears that pain continues to be registered in what is known as the primary somatosensory cortex, which is the the main sensory receptive area for the sense of touch in the brain, in the hypnotised state. Other areas of the brain involved in pain perception such as the anterior cingulate gyrus, which allows sensory stimuli to trigger appropriate physical reactions and affect emotions, areas governing the processing of new memories or the links between emotion and sense perception, were shown to respond to stimuli significantly less in the hypnotic state, as compared to the normal state.

Dr. Laureys: "We were able to demonstrate clearly at the level of neural mechanisms that hypnosis has actual effects in reducing pain perception."

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Cancer patients should be offered hypnosis therapy to help reduce their pain, researchers said yesterday after a series of scientific studies.


Cancer patients should be offered hypnosis therapy to help reduce their pain, researchers said yesterday after a series of scientific studies.

Tests with patients as young as six found they reported and showed less discomfort when they were hypnotised or learnt how to hypnotise themselves.

The children were undergoing treatments such as lumbar punctures - where a long needle is inserted into the spine - and who suffered continual pain from cancer, said Dr Christina Liossi of the University of Wales in Swansea at the British Association Science Festival in Exeter.

"Hypnosis improves the quality of life for children and adults with cancer," she said. "It may also improve the length of life, though we are not yet sure on that. We need to put it into clinical practice. We now have experimental evidence that hypnosis is an intervention, at least with children who undergo painful treatment procedures."

Her call came after the outcome of a study with 80 children in Greece, who clearly showed less reaction to pain when hypnosis techniques were used. Children who were not hypnotised, but simply engaged in comforting conversation, reported and showed more pain than hypnotised ones.

Although hypnotism is often made available as an alternative therapy, the work by Dr Liossi suggests that it should become part of standard clinical practice. She is now about to start a second full study in Swansea.

Scientists agreed that after years when debate has raged over whether hypnosis has a real basis or is just a pretence, there is now clear data showing that important brain functions change when somebody "goes under" a hypnotist's spell.

"Brain scans show that in hypnosis there's a disconnection by a part of the brain called the anterior cingulate gyrus, which monitors what we are doing in the here and now," said Dr Peter Naish of the Open University.

"In stage hypnosis, the reason why people can do outrageous things that they wouldn't normally do is that that structure, which monitors the emotional consequences of our future behaviour - what if I do this or that - doesn't understand the consequences of following the hypnotist's instructions."

Scientists are less clear how hypnotism works in the easing of pain - although they now feel sure that it does. "Studies in the US show that rather than ignoring pain, hypnotised patients appear to be attending to it, focusing on the pain in order to deal with it," said Dr Naish.

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June 26, 2007 Hypnosis is a process in which critical thinking faculties of the mind are bypassed and a type of selective thinking and perception is established. The term hypnosis was coined by Scottish physician, James Braid, using the Greek word for sleep for the technique which he pioneered as a surgical anaesthetic. Last week a university study presented to the European Neurological Society meeting in Rhodos demonstrated that hypnosis can offer significant reduction in pain awareness without any effect on non-painful aspects of the subject's perception. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure brain activity, the studies found hypnosis reduced acute pain perception by about a third.

The ways in which hypnosis may reduce a patient's sensitivity to painful stimuli at the level of neuron activity has not been well understood. A study by teams of researchers at the Universities of Liège in Belgium and Copenhagen, Denmark, has now demonstrated that hypnosis can offer significant reduction in pain awareness without any effect on non-painful aspects of the subject's perception. Hypnosis is most effective in altering perception of acute pain, experts reported at the 17th Meeting of the European Neurological Society from June 16 to 20 in Rhodos (Greece).

The study used 13 healthy subjects and tested them twice, once in a normal state and once while hypnotised. During the two sessions functional magnetic resonance imaging, which traces which regions of the brain are active at a given moment, was used to observe how pain was registered at the level of neural mechanisms. Each participant received 200 laser stimuli in increasing intensity on the left hand. They were asked to rate their sensations from no pain perception, on a five point scale, to intense pain. The results then underwent statistical parametrical mapping, which allows researchers to screen out background neural activity from the brain scans and highlight neuron activity related solely to the area under investigation, in this case neural response to pain stimuli.

“Perception of intense pain was significantly altered while participants were under hypnosis”, says Dr. Steven Laureys from the Coma Science Group, University of Liège. “Measured by brain activity, hypnosis reduced acute pain perception by about a third. However for levels of pain at the low end of the scale, hypnosis barely altered perception of the stimuli.”

The map of the brain scans allowed the research teams to identify which areas of the brain were affected in the hypnotic state. It appears that pain continues to be registered in what is known as the primary somatosensory cortex, which is the the main sensory receptive area for the sense of touch in the brain, in the hypnotised state. Other areas of the brain involved in pain perception such as the anterior cingulate gyrus, which allows sensory stimuli to trigger appropriate physical reactions and affect emotions, areas governing the processing of new memories or the links between emotion and sense perception, were shown to respond to stimuli significantly less in the hypnotic state, as compared to the normal state.

Dr. Laureys: “We were able to demonstrate clearly at the level of neural mechanisms that hypnosis has actual effects in reducing pain perception.”

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