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| Irving KirschSummaryAffiliation: University of Hull Country: UK Publications
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Hypnotic history: a reply to criticsIrving Kirsch
Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX United Kingdom
Am J Clin Hypn 49:249-54. 2007....- Consistency of the placebo effectBen Whalley
School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
J Psychosom Res 64:537-41. 2008..For prediction to be possible, the response to placebo must be reliable. We tested the consistency of the placebo effect by assessing the response to four trials of placebo analgesic treatment... - National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association consensus statement on the use of placebo in clinical trials of mood disordersDennis S Charney
Division of Intramural Research Programs, National Institute of Mental Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:262-70. 2002..Research is needed on the ethical conduct of studies to limit risks of medication-free intervals and facilitate poststudy treatment. Patients must fully understand the risks and lack of individualized treatment involved in research... - Remembrance of hypnosis pastIrving Kirsch
Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, United Kingdom
Am J Clin Hypn 49:171-8; discussion 179-80, 183-4. 2007..The importance of these data to both clinical and experimental hypnosis is emphasized... - The altered state issue: dead or alive?Irving Kirsch
Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, United Kingdom
Int J Clin Exp Hypn 59:350-62. 2011..Recent brain imaging data from the University of Hull are reviewed with respect to their implications concerning the existence and functional significance of the hypothesized hypnotic state... - Suggestibility and suggestive modulation of the Stroop effectIrving Kirsch
University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
Conscious Cogn 20:335-6. 2011..Research aimed at uncovering the means by which low suggestible individuals are able to modulate the Stroop effect would be welcome, as would assessment of this effect in moderately suggestible people... - Clinical trials and the response rate illusionIrving Kirsch
Psychology, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, United Kingdom
Contemp Clin Trials 28:348-51. 2007..Response rates based on continuous data do not add information, and they can create an illusion of clinical effectiveness... - Antidepressants and the placebo responseIrving Kirsch
Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, United Kingdom
Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc 18:318-22. 2009..To evaluate new generation antidepressants in relation to the placebo response... - Initial severity and antidepressant benefits: a meta-analysis of data submitted to the Food and Drug AdministrationIrving Kirsch
Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom
PLoS Med 5:e45. 2008..The purpose of this analysis is to establish the relation of baseline severity and antidepressant efficacy using a relevant dataset of published and unpublished clinical trials... - Hypnotic induction decreases anterior default mode activityWilliam J McGeown
Department of Psychology, University of Hull, UK
Conscious Cogn 18:848-55. 2009..The findings indicate that hypnotic induction creates a distinctive and unique pattern of brain activation in highly suggestible subjects... - Suggested visual hallucination without hypnosis enhances activity in visual areas of the brainWilliam J McGeown
Department of Psychology, University of Hull, UK
Conscious Cogn 21:100-16. 2012..The results indicate that a hypnotic induction, although having the potential to enhance the ability of high suggestible people, is not necessary for the effective alteration of color perception by suggestion... - Suggested visual hallucinations in and out of hypnosisGiuliana Mazzoni
University of Hull, Department of Psychology, Cottingham Road, Hull HU5 3EY, United Kingdom
Conscious Cogn 18:494-9. 2009.... - The effects of observation and gender on psychogenic symptomsGiuliana Mazzoni
Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, England
Health Psychol 29:181-5. 2010..To assess the effects of modeling and its interaction with gender in the production of psychogenic symptoms... - Illness by suggestion: expectancy, modeling, and gender in the production of psychosomatic symptomsWilliam Lorber
University of Connecticut, USA
Ann Behav Med 33:112-6. 2007..Expectancy and modeling have been cited as factors in mass psychogenic illness (MPI), which reportedly affects more women than men... - Immediate and persisting effects of misleading questions and hypnosis on memory reportsAlan Scoboria
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, USA
J Exp Psychol Appl 8:26-32. 2002..There were no significant interactions with level of hypnotic suggestibility. Implications of these findings for the per se exclusion of posthypnotic testimony are discussed... - Conditioning, expectancy, and the placebo effect: comment on Stewart-Williams and Podd (2004)Irving Kirsch
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 1020, USA
Psychol Bull 130:341-3; discussion 344-5. 2004..Thus, the higher up the phylogenetic scale, the smaller the role of nonconscious conditioning processes and the larger the role of cognition... - The effects of hypnotic and nonhypnotic imaginative suggestion on painLeonard S Milling
University of Hartford, Department of Psychology, West Hartford, CT 06117, USA
Ann Behav Med 29:116-27. 2005..Few studies have compared placebo and suggested pain reduction... - Placebo psychotherapy: synonym or oxymoron?Irving Kirsch
Faculty of Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth, UK
J Clin Psychol 61:791-803. 2005..The idea of evaluating the efficacy of psychotherapy by controlling for nonspecific or placebo factors is based on a flawed analogy and should be abandoned... - Efficacy of antidepressants in adultsJoanna Moncrieff
Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London, London W1N 8AA
BMJ 331:155-7. 2005 - Brain activity associated with expectancy-enhanced placebo analgesia as measured by functional magnetic resonance imagingJian Kong
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA
J Neurosci 26:381-8. 2006..Our results suggest that placebo analgesia may be configured through multiple brain pathways and mechanisms... - Antidepressant drugs 'work', but they are not clinically effectiveIrving Kirsch
Br J Hosp Med (Lond) 69:359. 2008 - Components of placebo effect: randomised controlled trial in patients with irritable bowel syndromeTed J Kaptchuk
Osher Research Center, Harvard Medical School, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA
BMJ 336:999-1003. 2008..To assess the relative magnitude of these components... - Do "placebo responders" exist?Ted J Kaptchuk
Osher Research Center, Harvard Medical School, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 29:587-95. 2008..Finally, this paper proposes one model to rigorously investigate the stability of placebo responses... - Moving beyond depression: How full is the glass?Irving Kirsch
BMJ 336:629-30. 2008 - The effect of posthypnotic suggestion, hypnotic suggestibility, and goal intentions on adherence to medical instructionsClaudia Carvalho
Higher Institute of Applied Psychology, Lisbon, Portugal
Int J Clin Exp Hypn 56:143-55. 2008..Posthypnotic suggestion enhanced adherence among high suggestible participants but lowered it among low suggestibles... - Investigating placebo effects in irritable bowel syndrome: a novel research designLisa A Conboy
Osher Institute, Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Therapies, Harvard Medical School, 401 Park Drive, Suite 22A, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 27:123-34. 2006..quot; The trial also uses an innovative combination of quantitative and qualitative methods... - 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... - Effects of misleading questions and hypnotic memory suggestion on memory reports: a signal-detection analysisAlan Scoboria
University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Int J Clin Exp Hypn 54:340-59. 2006..Signal detection analysis indicated that misleading questioning produced decreased sensitivity accompanied by higher response bias, though affecting sensitivity more than producing a criterion shift... - Placebo analgesia: findings from brain imaging studies and emerging hypothesesJian Kong
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA
Rev Neurosci 18:173-90. 2007..The literature suggests that multiple brain regions, including the anterior cingulate cortex, anterior insula, prefrontal cortex and periaqueductal grey, play a pivotal role in these processes...