The Neuroscience of Being Human
The Neuroscience of Hypnotherapy and Pain
Why hypnosis is one of the oldest and most evidence-based interventions for pain, how it modulates the neural circuits that generate suffering, and what this means for the millions of people living with chronic pain that medication cannot adequately treat
1,405-word article with 8 Harvard references.
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Pain is not a sensation. It is a construction. The brain builds the experience of pain from a combination of sensory input, emotional context, memory, expectation, and attentional focus, and every one of those components can be modified by hypnotic intervention. This fully referenced article explores how hypnotherapy alters activity in the pain matrix, why the anterior cingulate cortex is the most important target, and how the neuroscience of hypnotic analgesia provides a credible, evidence-based mechanism for an intervention that has been used for pain relief since before anaesthesia existed.
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