@article {Rainville:April 2003:0020-7144:105, author = "Rainville P.", author = "Price D.D.", title = "Hypnosis Phenomenology and the Neurobiology of Consciousness", journal = "International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis", volume = "51", year = "April 2003", abstract = "Recent developments in the philosophical and neurobiological studies of consciousness provide promising frameworks to investigate the neurobiology of hypnosis. A model of consciousness phenomenology is described to demonstrate that the experiential dimensions characterizing hypnosis (relaxation and mental ease, absorption, orientation and monitoring, and self-agency) reflect basic phenomenal properties of consciousness. Changes in relaxation-mental ease and absorption, produced by standard hypnotic procedures, are further associated with changes in brain activity within structures critically involved in the basic representation of the body-self and the regulation of states of consciousness. The combination of experiential and modern brain imaging methods offers a unique perspective on hypnotic phenomena and provides new observations consistent with the proposition that hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness.", pages = "105-129(25)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/iceh/2003/00000051/00000002/art00003" doi = "doi:10.1076/iceh.51.2.105.14613" }