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The Effects of Hypnosis on Heart Rate Variability

Ramazan Yüksel, Osman Özcan, Şenol Dane

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Uslu et al. (2012 Uslu, T., Ilhan, A., Ozcan, O., Turkoglu, D., Ersoy, A. and Celik, E. 2012. Cerebral blood flow evaluation during the hypnotic state with transcranial Doppler sonography. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 60: 81–87. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) suggested that hypnotic status can modulate cerebral blood flow. The authors investigated the effects of hypnosis on heart rate variability (HRV). In women, HRV decreased during hypnosis. Posthypnotic values were higher compared to prehypnotic and hypnotic values. Women had highest HRV parameters in the posthypnotic condition. It appears that hypnosis can produce cardiac and cognitive activations. Hypnotherapy may be useful in some cardiac clinical conditions characterized by an autonomic imbalance or some cardiac arrhythmias.

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Uslu et al. (2012 Uslu, T., Ilhan, A., Ozcan, O., Turkoglu, D., Ersoy, A. and Celik, E. 2012. Cerebral blood flow evaluation during the hypnotic state with transcranial Doppler sonography. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 60: 81–87. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) suggested that hypnotic status can modulate cerebral blood flow. The authors investigated the effects of hypnosis on heart rate variability (HRV). In women, HRV decreased during hypnosis. Posthypnotic values were higher compared to prehypnotic and hypnotic values. Women had highest HRV parameters in the posthypnotic condition. It appears that hypnosis can produce cardiac and cognitive activations. Hypnotherapy may be useful in some cardiac clinical conditions characterized by an autonomic imbalance or some cardiac arrhythmias.

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Uslu et al. (2012 Uslu, T., Ilhan, A., Ozcan, O., Turkoglu, D., Ersoy, A. and Celik, E. 2012. Cerebral blood flow evaluation during the hypnotic state with transcranial Doppler sonography. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 60: 81–87. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) suggested that hypnotic status can modulate cerebral blood flow. The authors investigated the effects of hypnosis on heart rate variability (HRV). In women, HRV decreased during hypnosis. Posthypnotic values were higher compared to prehypnotic and hypnotic values. Women had highest HRV parameters in the posthypnotic condition. It appears that hypnosis can produce cardiac and cognitive activations. Hypnotherapy may be useful in some cardiac clinical conditions characterized by an autonomic imbalance or some cardiac arrhythmias.

Key concepts: Hypnosis, Hypnotic, Heart rate variability, Psychology, Heart rate, Cognition, Anesthesia, Neuroscience

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