News tagged with suggestion
The power of suggestion: Researchers look at why suggestive therapy may prompt false memories
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychologist Elke Geraerts of the University of St Andrews has carried out a study of the difference between memories recalled by patients through suggestive therapies, compared with more natural recollections.
Seeing red -- in the number 7
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 22, 2008 |
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Hypnosis can induce synaesthetic experiences – where one sense triggers the involuntary use of another – according to a new study by UCL (University College London) researchers. The findings suggests that people with synaesthesia, ...
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Imaging the hypnotized brain: Neural mechanisms of suggested paralysis
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Although there is no doubt that hypnosis can impact the mind and behavior, the underlying brain mechanisms are not well understood. Now, new research provides fascinating insight into the specific neural effect of the power ...
People are more suggestible under laughing gas
Jan 09, 2009 |
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The pain-relieving effects of nitrous oxide - laughing gas - may be enhanced by suggestion or hypnosis, according to a new study by UCL (University College London). The study's findings - that people are more suggestible ...
Name that Space Telescope!
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Would you like to name the next great space telescope? Here's your chance: NASA is inviting members of the general public from around the world to suggest a new name for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, ...
Hypnosis study reveals brain's 'amnesia centers'
Jan 09, 2008 |
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Brain scans of hypnotized people that are taken as they forget and are triggered to remember have revealed neural circuitry that is key to the memory suppression and recall process. The researchers who conducted the study ...
GLAST's Delta II rocket's first stage arrives in Cape Canaveral
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2008 |
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The first stage of the Delta II rocket that will be used to launch the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) into space in May has arrived at Hangar M on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) ...
'Whitewash' could slow global warming: Peruvian scientist
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 04, 2009 |
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A Peruvian scientist has called on his country to help slow the melting of Andean glaciers by daubing white paint on the rock and earth left behind by receding ice so they will absorb less heat.
Taking entanglement beyond one ebit
Jan 23, 2007 |
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“Entanglement is a main part of quantum mechanics, and it is important to obtain a high degree of it in physical systems,” Lucas Lamata tells PhysOrg.com. Lucas Lamata is a scientist with the Institute for Fundamental Mathem ...
Microsofties' side project seeks new Office ideas
Aug 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Have a gripe about Office? A couple of guys at Microsoft Corp. want to hear it directly.
Hypnosis - the key to unlocking the delusional mind?
Apr 02, 2008 |
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Researchers at Macquarie University have developed an original new approach to the study of delusions, using hypnosis to temporarily create typical delusional beliefs in otherwise non-delusional people.
Researchers find that hypnosis can induce synesthesia
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Hypnosis can induce "synesthetic" experiences – where one sense triggers the involuntary use of another – within an average brain, according to a new study in the journal Psychological Science, the premiere publication of the ...
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