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Advanced Research in Hypnotizability
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Advanced Research in Hypnotizability

A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems Neuroscience".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2021) | Viewed by 5026

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Enrica Santarcangelo

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Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Interests: hypnotizability; imagery; hypnosis; sensorimotor integration; interoception; cognition; pain cognitive control
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Dr. Vilfredo De Pascalis

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Department of Psychology, La Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy
Interests: personality; individual traits; hypnotizability; hypnosis; cognitive control of pain; EEG
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Dr. Katalin Varga

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Department of Affective Psychology, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Interests: rapport; suggestions; altered states of consciousness; phenomenology; reliability of standardised scales; hypnotizability-related characteristics; expectancy; demand characteristics; contextual effects

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Hypnotizability is one of the main factors modulating the proneness of a person to enter the hypnotic state and to respond to suggestions, which are instructions for the participant that cause them to imagine conditions different from the actual situation. Hypnotizability is, however, a very pervasive dispositional trait involved in perception and behavior, even independently of the induction of hypnosis and the administration of specific suggestions.

The aim of this Special Issue is to venture deeper into the assessment of the role exerted by hypnotizability in various psychophysiological functions and contexts in healthy participants and patients. The submitted papers should allow us to place hypnotizability in the frame of neuroscience by reporting cutting-edge research exploring the neural mechanisms of brain functions involved in the hypnotic state and in the response to suggestions, the genetic bases of hypnotizability-related differences, and eventual interactions of hypnotizability with other cognitive–emotional traits.

We welcome submissions of original research papers in the field of systems/cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging and neural signal processing, genetics, neuropsychology and psychophysiology, cognitive control of pain and of psychiatric and neurological symptoms. Methodological papers and reviews will also be considered.

Dr. Enrica L. Santarcangelo
Guest Editor
Dr. Vilfredo De Pascalis
Dr. Katalin Varga
Co-Guest Editors

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • hypnotizability
  • hypnotic susceptibility
  • neural circuits
  • EEG
  • fMRI
  • interoception
  • cardiovascular
  • genetics
  • neuropsychiatric
  • suggestion
  • pain
  • hypnosis
  • cognition
  • emotion
  • placebo
  • nocebo

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Heartbeat-Evoked Cortical Potential during Sleep and Interoceptive Sensitivity: A Matter of Hypnotizability
by Lucia Billeci, Ugo Faraguna, Enrica L. Santarcangelo, Paola d’Ascanio, Maurizio Varanini and Laura Sebastiani
Brain Sci. 2021, 11(8), 1089; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11081089 - 19 Aug 2021
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Individuals with different hypnotizability display different interoceptive sensitivity/awareness (IS) and accuracy (IA), likely sustained by morphofunctional differences in interoception-related brain regions and, thus, possibly also observable during sleep. We investigated the heartbeat-evoked cortical potential amplitude (HEP) during sleep, its association with IS, and [...] Read more.
Individuals with different hypnotizability display different interoceptive sensitivity/awareness (IS) and accuracy (IA), likely sustained by morphofunctional differences in interoception-related brain regions and, thus, possibly also observable during sleep. We investigated the heartbeat-evoked cortical potential amplitude (HEP) during sleep, its association with IS, and the role of hypnotizability in such association. We performed a retrospective analysis of polysomnographic recordings of 39 healthy volunteers. Participants completed the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA), measuring IS and IA, and underwent hypnotic assessment via the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, form A. The amplitude of the early and late HEP components was computed at EEG frontal and central sites. In both regions, the early HEP component was larger in N3 than in N2 and REM, with no difference between N2 and REM. Greater HEP amplitude at frontal than at central sites was found for the late HEP component. HEP amplitudes were not influenced by the autonomic state assessed by heart rate variability in the frequency and time domains. We report for the first time a positive correlation between the central late HEP component and MAIA dimensions, which became non-significant after removing the effects of hypnotizability. Our findings indicate that hypnotizability sustains the correlation between IS and HEP amplitude during sleep. Full article
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Possible Mechanisms of Hypnosis from an Interactional Perspective
by Katalin Varga
Brain Sci. 2021, 11(7), 903; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11070903 - 09 Jul 2021
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In this paper, utilizing the interactional research paradigm developed by Éva Bányai, we discuss the hypnotic relationship from the viewpoint of interactional synchrony. Based on our three decades of empirical studies of an interactional paradigm, we propose the analogy between hypnosis and mother–child [...] Read more.
In this paper, utilizing the interactional research paradigm developed by Éva Bányai, we discuss the hypnotic relationship from the viewpoint of interactional synchrony. Based on our three decades of empirical studies of an interactional paradigm, we propose the analogy between hypnosis and mother–child interaction. Hypnosis is considered as a potential corrective/reparative possibility when the real childhood experiences appear to be unfavourable. Possible neuroanatomical and neurochemical mechanisms are also suggested in the right hemispheric orbitofrontal cortex and central oxytocin system. Full article
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