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GLOBAL NEWS
Special Focus Montreal: Placebos
April 30th, 2011
THE GAZETTE
Meditation, Hypnosis Change 'Brain Signature'
March 22nd, 2011
In our industrialised world, we tend to perceive medical treatment as a function of our tools rather than our personal competencies. Throughout his research and presentations, Dr. Amir Raz affords us a glimpse of our inner capacities and the extent to which we can train our brain. His recent mini-science lecture exposes some implications of attention training, as well as the often under-evaluated capacities of hypnosis and meditation therapy.
Also see "May I have your attention please?", The Vancouver Sun, April 2nd, 2011
 CBS NEWS
Surprise Finding About Placebo Performance
December 23rd, 2010
In a recent study, it was demonstrated that the placebo effect can occur without its deceptive component. Even when aware that the ingested pill is inert, some patients experience benefit when wilfully taking a placebo.
 KATE JOHNSON'S MEDICAL MUSINGSFreelance Medical Journalist Ms. Kate Johnson comments on Steve Silberman's July 6th presentation.
 THE GLOBE AND MAILJune 25th, 2010
The Globe and Mail sheds light on Dr. Raz's background, from being a magician to being a renowned scientist. Today, what are the purposes and advantages of using hypnosis in science?
 SCIENTIFIC AMERICANJune 2007
Antidepressants, designed for adults, may be altering the brains of kids who take them. Prescribing drugs that affect serotonin regulation to children or teenagers might impact their cortical development in unpredictable ways. Serotonin modulation may be implicated in depression, but modifying its reuptake at a critically young age might also affect the regulation of stress and emotions at an older age.
 SCIENTIFIC AMERICANApril 24th, 2006
To date, strong evidence has not been compiled extensively enough to prove the noxious effects of electromagnetic or radiation waves on the brain, yet, one can not rule out the probability that these can harm internal cells and tissues in the brain.
March 2006
Neuroimaging studies are helping hypnosis shed its 'occult' connotations by finding that its effects on the brain are real. An outlook of the genuine biological basis of hypnotic suggestions; the exploration of the stoop effect through brain imaging. How do highly hypnotizable individuals differ under suggestion compared to low hypnotizable?
 COLUMBIA NEWSJuly 1st, 2005
Hypnosis is being rediscovered in Medicine through the lens of Dr. Amir Raz, who brings scientific evidence to the phenomena and highlights its possible usages in diverse medical conditions, for example, in the regain of impulse control.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
June 28th, 2005
fMRI studies demonstrate the extent to which suggestion in highly hypnotizable individuals may influence conflict monitoring by the modulation of specific brain areas.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
November 22nd, 2005
What is hypnosis exactly and how can it affect our perceptions? An outlook of the top-down mechanisms influenced by suggestions and expectations as well as their potent long-lasting effects.
For an Interview with the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, click here.
CBC AM
July 5th, 2010
CBC RADIO NOON
April 21st, 2010
CBC Radio Noon about hypnosis.
March 19th, 2010
Dr. Amir Raz (and another guest) talk about hypnosis on the Leonard Lopate Show Please Explain.
TÉLÉ-QUÉBEC
February 2nd, 2009
Dr. Raz talks about the de-automatization of mental processes (In French)
SCIENCENTRAL
July 15th, 2005
Dr Raz exposes the power of hypnotic suggestion in the deautomatization of reading. Also see the related article.
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Clinical Neuroscience and Applied Cognition Laboratory
Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry at the Jewish General Hospital
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