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Welcome to The International Hypnosis Research Institute Web site. Our intention is to support and promote the further worldwide integration of comprehensive evidence-based research and clinical hypnotherapy with mainstream mental health, medicine, and coaching. We do so by disseminating, supporting, and conducting research, providing professional level education, advocating increased level of practitioner competency, and supporting the viability and success of clinical practitioners. Although currently over 80% of our membership is comprised of mental health practitioners, we fully recognize the role, support, involvement, and needs of those in the medical and coaching fields. This site is not intended as a source of medical or psychological advice. Tim Brunson, PhD

Shaun Brookhouse - GCGI, MA, DCH, CertEd, ACoT, ADHP(NC), DipProfCouns, HPD, MNRHP, DNGH, FNCH

Posted At : August 28, 2007 1:53 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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Shaun Brookhouse is an award winning hypnotherapist and trainer (in both in the UK and US). He earned Graduateship (First Degree Equivalent) in Counseling and Hypnotherapy, a Masters Degree in Education Studies (Researching the development of training in Hypnotherapy 1971-1998), a Doctorate in Clinical Hypnotherapy, a CertEd (Teaching Credential) in which the assessment was based in part on the course he designed in clinical hypnosis, an Associateship Diploma from the College of Teachers and Licenciateship in Training and Development. It should be noted that Shaun Brookhouse 's Doctoral Qualification is academic and professional, it is NOT a medical qualification. For full details of his credentials go to CV.

Shaun is a Certified Master Instructor with the National Guild of Hypnotists, the oldest and largest hypnotherapy society in the world. Shaun is also a past Chairman of the National Council for Hypnotherapy, one of the UK's premier hypnotherapy societies. Additionally, he is a NLP Master Trainer.

Shaun was one of the first hypnotherapists in the UK to earn US Board Certification, as well as being one of the first two hypnotherapists to earn the externally accredited Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma. He is Principal of the Washington School of Clinical and Advanced Hypnosis and lectures on the subjects of Hypnosis and Neuro Linguistics internationally. Shaun is also the co-author of Motivational Hypnotism and Hypnotic Coaching and co-founder of the Motivational Hypnotism Model of Therapy.

For more information visit www.hypno-nlp.com

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Neural correlates of attentional expertise in long-term meditation practitioners.

Posted At : August 28, 2007 1:27 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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Meditation refers to a family of mental training practices that are designed to familiarize the practitioner with specific types of mental processes. One of the most basic forms of meditation is concentration meditation, in which sustained attention is focused on an object such as a small visual stimulus or the breath. In age-matched participants, using functional MRI, we found that activation in a network of brain regions typically involved in sustained attention showed an inverted u-shaped curve in which expert meditators (EMs) with an average of 19,000 h of practice had more activation than novices, but EMs with an average of 44,000 h had less activation. In response to distracter sounds used to probe the meditation, EMs vs. novices had less brain activation in regions related to discursive thoughts and emotions and more activation in regions related to response inhibition and attention. Correlation with hours of practice suggests possible plasticity in these mechanisms.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jul 3;104(27):11483-8. Epub 2007 Jun 27.

Brefczynski-Lewis JA, Lutz A, Schaefer HS, Levinson DB, Davidson RJ.

*W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53226.

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