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Contextualizing specificity: specific and non-specific effects of treatmentAmir Raz
Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Montreal, QC
Am J Clin Hypn 50:177-82. 2007..Interpretation of these data paves the road to a more scientific strategy for studying the neural basis of suggestion and placebo response, and holds promise for the optimal matching of patient and treatment...- Selective biasing of a specific bistable-figure percept involves fMRI signal changes in frontostriatal circuits: a step toward unlocking the neural correlates of top-down control and self-regulationAmir Raz
Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Am J Clin Hypn 50:137-56. 2007..With special relevance to clinical neuroscience and applications involving attention, expectation and suggestion (e.g., hypnosis), our results address the importance of frontostriatal circuitry in behavioral modulation... - A commentary on mumpsimus, sumpsimus and the mpemba effectAmir Raz
Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, McGill University and SMBD Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
Am J Clin Hypn 50:183-5. 2007 - Genetics and neuroimaging of attention and hypnotizability may elucidate placeboAmir Raz
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
Int J Clin Exp Hypn 56:99-116. 2008..These exploratory findings may extend to the identification of placebo responders... - Paranormal experience and the COMT dopaminergic gene: a preliminary attempt to associate phenotype with genotype using an underlying brain theoryAmir Raz
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, BC, Canada
Cortex 44:1336-41. 2008..Although our preliminary findings are inconclusive, the research approach we outline should pave the road to a more scientific account of elucidating paranormal belief... - Hemihypnosis, hypnosis, and the importance of knowing right from trendAmir Raz
McGill University, Clinical Neuroscience and Applied Cognition Laboratory, Inst of Community and Family Psychiatry, SMBD Jewish General Hospital, 4333 Cote Ste Catherine Rd, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E4, Canada
Am J Clin Hypn 51:201-8. 2008..Tales are ubiquitous, however, and claims relating to the left or right hemispheres require both context and substantive data. Here we sketch the gist of brain laterality findings and their relevance to the hypnosis community... - Neural substrates of self-regulatory control in children and adults with Tourette syndromeAmir Raz
McGill University, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Montreal, Quebec
Can J Psychiatry 54:579-88. 2009..To identify the neural substrate of self-regulatory control in children and adults with Tourette syndrome (TS)... - Can suggestion obviate reading? Supplementing primary Stroop evidence with exploratory negative priming analysesAmir Raz
Department of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neuroscience, McGill University and Jewish General Hospital, Montreal Neurological Institute, 3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4
Conscious Cogn 20:312-20. 2011..Thus, at least in this experimental context, suggestion seems to dampen a deeply-engrained and largely automatic process - reading - by wielding a larger influence on HSIs relative to comparable LSIs... - Placebos in clinical practice: comparing attitudes, beliefs, and patterns of use between academic psychiatrists and nonpsychiatristsAmir Raz
Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neuroscience, and Psychology, McGill University and the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec
Can J Psychiatry 56:198-208. 2011.... - Does neuroimaging of suggestion elucidate hypnotic trance?Amir Raz
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Int J Clin Exp Hypn 59:363-77. 2011..This article elucidates the mounting role of cognitive neuroscience, including the relative merits and intrinsic limitations of neuroimaging, in better contextualizing trance-like concepts... - Hypnotic dreams as a lens into hypnotic dynamicsAmir Raz
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
Int J Clin Exp Hypn 58:69-81. 2010..These findings contextualize for further research and therapy transference issues related to the hypnotic relationship and the use of hypnotic dreams... - Hypnosis: a twilight zone of the top-down variety Few have never heard of hypnosis but most know little about the potential of this mind-body regulation technique for advancing scienceAmir Raz
Institute for Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E4, Canada
Trends Cogn Sci 15:555-7. 2011..Although scientists are still unraveling how hypnosis works, little is mystical about this powerful top-down process, which is an important tool in the armamentarium of the cognitive scientist seeking to unlock topical conundrums... - Hypnotic suggestion and the modulation of Stroop interferenceAmir Raz
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Ave, Box 140, New York, NY 10021, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:1155-61. 2002..Cognitive science has not fully exploited hypnosis and hypnotic suggestion as experimental tools. This study was designed to determine whether a hypnotic suggestion to hinder lexical processing could modulate the Stroop effect... - A slice of pi : an exploratory neuroimaging study of digit encoding and retrieval in a superior memoristAmir Raz
MRI Unit in the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
Neurocase 15:361-72. 2009.... - Critique of claims of improved visual acuity after hypnotic suggestionAmir Raz
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit in the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York 10032, USA
Optom Vis Sci 81:872-9. 2004..However, hypnosis can increase one's subjective feeling of enhanced visual acuity by affecting higher cognitive functions, such as attention, memorization, and perceptual learning, which could influence performance on visual tasks... - Attention and hypnosis: neural substrates and genetic associations of two converging processesAmir Raz
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA
Int J Clin Exp Hypn 53:237-58. 2005..Underlining data from attentional networks, neuroimaging, and genetics, these findings should help to explain individual differences in hypnotizability and the neural systems subserving hypnosis... - Posthypnotic suggestion and the modulation of Stroop interference under cycloplegiaAmir Raz
Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, White Plains, NY 10605, USA
Conscious Cogn 12:332-46. 2003..These data strengthen the view that Stroop interference is neither robust nor inevitable and support the hypothesis that posthypnotic suggestion may exert a top-down influence on neural processing... - Neuroimaging and genetic associations of attentional and hypnotic processesAmir Raz
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, USA
J Physiol Paris 99:483-91. 2006..These results may explain individual differences in hypnotizability and propose new ideas for studying the influence of suggestion on neural systems... - See clearly: suggestion, hypnosis, attention, and visual acuityAmir Raz
Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, New York 10032, USA
Int J Clin Exp Hypn 52:159-87. 2004..It seems likely that the small apparent influence of suggestion on visual acuity is mediated by changes in attention. The authors outline how attention can affect visual acuity... - Suggestion overrides the Stroop effect in highly hypnotizable individualsAmir Raz
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York State Psychiatric Institute, MRI Unit in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York, NY 10032, USA
Conscious Cogn 16:331-8. 2007..We show that suggestion administered to highly hypnotizable persons significantly reduced Stroop interference and derailed a seemingly automatic process... - Typologies of attentional networksAmir Raz
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York 10032, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 7:367-79. 2006..Given the recent explosion in empirical data, attentional typologies provide powerful conceptual tools with which to contextualize and integrate these findings... - Hypnotic suggestion reduces conflict in the human brainAmir Raz
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:9978-83. 2005..Our findings illuminate how suggestion affects cognitive control by modulating activity in specific brain areas, including early visual modules, and provide a more scientific account relating the neural effects of suggestion to placebo... - Ecological nuances in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI): psychological stressors, posture, and hydrostaticsAmir Raz
MRI Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Box 74, New York, NY 10032, USA
Neuroimage 25:1-7. 2005..Recognizing the central role of fMRI in unraveling the neural mechanisms of cognition, we outline ways to address these limitations... - A statistical framework for the classification of tensor morphologies in diffusion tensor imagesHongtu Zhu
MRI Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
Magn Reson Imaging 24:569-82. 2006..We also show that the P values for test statistics are more sensitive tools for classifying tensor morphologies than are invariant measures of anisotropy alone... - Testing the efficiency and independence of attentional networksJin Fan
The Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Avenue, Box 140, New York, NY 10002, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 14:340-7. 2002..The ANT may also serve as an activation task for neuroimaging studies and as a phenotype for the study of the influence of genes on attentional networks... - Substrates of negative accommodationAmir Raz
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA
Binocul Vis Strabismus Q 19:71-4. 2004..We sketch a potential mechanism by which negative accommodation may operate, if it exists... - Hypnosis and neuroscience: a cross talk between clinical and cognitive researchAmir Raz
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Ave, PO Box 140, New York, NY 10021, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:85-90. 2002..We outline how the hypnotic state can serve as a way to tap neurocognitive questions and how cognitive assays can in turn shed new light on the neural bases of hypnosis. This cross talk should enhance research and clinical applications... - Suggestion reduces the stroop effectAmir Raz
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York State Psychiatric Institute, MRI Unit in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychol Sci 17:91-5. 2006..These findings indicate that suggestion can at least partially overcome the automaticity associated with the Stroop effect... - Suggestibility and hypnotizability: mind the gapAmir Raz
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Willow Chest Centre, 100 2647 Willow St, Vancouver, BC
Am J Clin Hypn 49:205-10. 2007..To be sure, exploring the power of suggestion will likely pave the road to a more scientific understanding of such psychological phenomena as motivation, expectation, and the placebo effect... - Anatomy of attentional networksAmir Raz
MRI Unit, Department of Psychaiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
Anat Rec B New Anat 281:21-36. 2004..A discussion of pertinent results connects attentional networks with self-regulation, development, and rehabilitation training... - Elucidating Tourette's syndrome: perspectives from hypnosis, attention and self-regulationAmir Raz
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
Am J Clin Hypn 49:289-309. 2007..Showing that the symptoms of TS are susceptible to self-regulatory interventions such as hypnosis, we propose that attentional training could be used to both treat the disorder and better understand it... - Measuring attention in the hemispheres: the lateralized attention network test (LANT)Deanna J Greene
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Brain Cogn 66:21-31. 2008..We suggest that the LANT is an informative extension of the original ANT, allowing for measurement of the three attention networks in each hemisphere separately... - Hypnobo: perspectives on hypnosis and placeboAmir Raz
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
Am J Clin Hypn 50:29-36. 2007.... - Interview with Amir Raz, Ph.D., July 14, 2005. Interview by Jane Parsons-FeinAmir Raz
Am J Clin Hypn 49:129-42. 2006