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This paper reconstructs and attempts to verify hypotheses made by Leonard Ravitz, Ernest L. Rossi, and Milton H. Erickson, during their research on the influence of hypnosis on the human electromagnetic field. Original charts measured electrodynamic voltage differences of 44 subjects. These voltage differences from Ravitz, Erickson and Rossi's research were digitalized and analyzed with statistical software to check the significance of four hypotheses about ways hypnosis influences the individual's electrodynamic recording. The results of this analysis of the magnitude of the subject's electrodynamic tracing were: (1) there was a statistically significant difference between the prehypnotic condition and hypnosis; (2) there was a statistically significant difference between hypnosis and posthypnotic condition; (3) there was no significant difference between posthypnotic and prehypnotic condition; and (4) there was a statistically significant correlation between an induction of catalepsy and alterations in the electrodynamic tracing. The significance of these findings is discussed with applications to Rossi's 4-Stage Creative Cycle.
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Hipnose , HumanosRESUMO
This paean composed on the occasion of the inaugural Bernauer W. Newton Trust presentation celebrates the personal and professional culture of 50 years of mentorship, teaching, and research by the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH). This review of current neuroscience concepts of therapeutic hypnosis and psychotherapy is made possible by the cooperation and dedication of all members of our society. Emerging pathways of psychosocial genomic research, which will lead to new directions for our society, are highlighted for their impact on our professional practice in the present and future.
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Genômica , Hipnose , Psicoterapia , Reabilitação , Nível de Alerta/fisiologia , Regulação da Temperatura Corporal/genética , Encéfalo/fisiopatologia , Ritmo Circadiano/genética , Expressão Gênica/fisiologia , Humanos , Relações Metafísicas Mente-Corpo , Plasticidade Neuronal/genética , Domínios e Motivos de Interação entre Proteínas/genética , Psicologia , SugestãoAssuntos
Educação em Saúde , Hipnose/métodos , Relações Públicas , Humanos , Pesquisa , Sociedades Científicas , Estereotipagem , Estados UnidosRESUMO
A new perspective on how therapeutic hypnosis and neuroscience may be integrated on the molecular-genomic level is offered as a guide for basic research and clinical applications. An update of Watson and Crick's original formulation of molecular biology is proposed to illustrate how psychosocial experiences modulate gene expression, protein synthesis, and brain plasticity during memory trace reactivation for the reorganization of neural networks that encode fear, stress, and traumatic symptoms. Examples of the scientific literature on DNA microarrays are used to explore how this new technology could integrate therapeutic hypnosis, neuroscience, and psychosocial genomics as a new foundation for mind-body medicine. Researchers and clinicians in therapeutic hypnosis need to partner with colleagues in neuroscience and molecular biology that utilize DNA microarray technology. It is recommended that hypnotic susceptibility scales of the future incorporate gene expression data to include the concept of "embodied imagination" and the "ideo-plastic faculty" on a molecular-genomic level as well as the psychological and behavioral level of ideomotor and ideosensory responses that are currently assessed.
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Hipnose/métodos , Biologia Molecular , Análise de Sequência com Séries de Oligonucleotídeos , Encéfalo/fisiologia , Comportamento Cooperativo , Expressão Gênica/fisiologia , Humanos , Imaginação , Relações Metafísicas Mente-Corpo , Rede Nervosa/fisiopatologia , Plasticidade Neuronal/genética , Neurociências , Psicofisiologia , PesquisaRESUMO
Recent research documents how psychosocial stress can alter the expression of the acetylcholinesterase gene to generate at least 3 alternative proteins that are implicated in a wide variety of normal mind-body functions, as well as pathologies. These range from early embryological development, plasticity of the brain in adulthood, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and stress-associated dysfunctions of the central nervous, endocrine, and immune systems, to age-related neuropathologies. Such stress-induced alternative gene splicing is proposed here as a major mind-body pathway of psychosocial genomics-the modulation of gene expression by creative psychological, social, and cultural processes. We explore the types of research that are now needed to investigate how stress-induced alternative splicing of the acetylcholinesterase gene may play a pivotal role in the deep psychobiology of psychotherapy, meditation, spiritual rituals, and the experiencing of positive humanistic values that have been associated with mind-body medicine, such as compassion, beneficence, serenity, forgiveness, and gratitude.
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Acetilcolinesterase/genética , Processamento Alternativo , Regulação da Expressão Gênica/fisiologia , Psicofisiologia , Estresse Fisiológico , Acetilcolinesterase/metabolismo , Adaptação Fisiológica , Adaptação Psicológica , Humanos , Imagens, Psicoterapia/métodos , Meditação/métodos , Psicofisiologia/métodos , Qualidade de Vida , Precursores de RNA/genética , Splicing de RNA/genética , RNA Mensageiro/genética , Estresse Fisiológico/genética , Estresse Fisiológico/fisiopatologia , Estresse Fisiológico/prevenção & controleRESUMO
Discussão de pesquisas recentes sobre ritmos naturais de alternância entre período de repouso e de atividade externa. É explorado o significado da natureza ondulatória da consciência, na busca de uma nova abordagem para a compreensão da psique e das relações mente-corpo (AU)
