Tim Brunson DCH

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Hypnosis: medicine's dirty word.

Posted At : November 3, 2006 12:25 PM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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This paper attempts to understand the relationship between the clinical efficacy of hypnosis and its negative perception among many medical educators, practitioners and the general public. By exploring the history of hypnosis, an attempt was made to point out several events that may have led to both the past and current misperception of hypnosis which the author believes have caused hypnosis to become "medicine's dirty word".

University of South Florida, USA. wupshaw@hsc.usf.edu

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Relaxation Response and Improve Attention

Posted At : November 3, 2006 12:32 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
Related Categories: Learning and Memory


Researchers at the Mind/Body Medical Institute of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, looked at the efficacy of the Relaxation Response (RR) in helping to decrease anxiety and accompanying salivary cortisol levels, as well as improve memory and attention span in healthy older adults.

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