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Raz, A., Wolfson, J. (In Press). From dynamic to behavioral lesions: The relative merits and caveats of elucidating psychoanalysis with brain imaging. In K. Fotopolou & D. Pfaff (Eds.), From the couch to the lab: Psychoanalysis, neuroscience and cognitive psychology in dialogue. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Raz, A. (in press). Critical Neuroscience: From Neuroimaging to Tea Leaves in the Bottom of a Cup. In S. Choudhury and J. Slaby (Eds.). Critical Neuroscience, Blackwell.

Gersten, A., Perle, J., Heimer, D., Raz, A., Fried, R. (2004). Probing Brain Oxygenation Waveforms with Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS). In T. Theophanides (Ed.), Infrared Spectroscopy, Life and Biomedical Sciences (pp. 111-132). Rijeka, Croatia: InTech.

Ben-Shoshan, M., Clarke, A., Raz, A. (2012). Psychosocial Factors and the Pathogenesis of Chronic Hives: A Survey of Canadian Physicians. Allergy and Therapy, 3(1). doi 10.4172/2155-6121.1000113

Rabipour, S., Raz, A. (2012). Training the brain: Fact and fad in cognitive and behavioral remediation. Brain and Cognition, 79(2), 159-179. doi 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.02.006

Demacheva, I., Ladouceur, M., Steinberg, E., Pogossova, G., & Raz, A. (2012). The Applied Cognitive Psychology of Attention: A Step Closer to Understanding Magic Tricks. Applied Cognitive Psychology.

de Jong, V., & Raz, A. (2011). Subtherapeutic Doses in the treatment of depression: The implications of starting low and going slow. The Journal of Mind-Body Regulation, 1(1), 73-84.

Raz, A. (2011). Does Neuroimaging of Suggestion Elucidate Hypnotic Trance? International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 59(3), 363-377.

Raz, A., & Campbell, N. K. J. (2011). Can Suggestion Obviate Reading? Supplementing Primary Stroop Evidence with Exploratory Negative Priming Analyses. Consciousness & Cognition, 20(2), 312-320.

Raz A, Campbell N. K. J. Guindi D, Holcroft C, Déry C, & Cuckier O. (2011). Placebos in Clinical Practice: Comparing Attitudes, Beliefs, and Patterns of Use between Academic Psychiatrists and Non-Psychiatrists. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 56(4), 198-208.

Raz, A., & Braude, H. (2010). Differentiating Neuroethics From Neurophilosophy. PsycCRITIQUES, 55(50).

Raz, A., & Wolfson, J. B. (2010). From Dynamic Lesions to Brain Imaging of Behavioral Lesions: Alloying the Gold of Psychoanalysis with the Copper of Suggestion. Neuropsychoanalysis, 12(1), 5-65.

Raz, A., Schweizer, H. R., Zhu, H., & Bowles, E. N. (2010). Hypnotic Dreams as a Lens into Hypnotic Dynamics. International Journal of Experimental Hypnosis, 58(1), 69-81.


Raz, A. (2009). Anomalous Cognition. In Kendrick Frazier (Ed.), Science Under Siege: Defending Science Exposing Pseudoscience (pp. 268-274). New York: Prometheus Books.

Raz, A., & Zigman, P., (2009). Using Magic as a Vehicle to Elucidate Attention. In A. Finazzi Agrò et al. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. London: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Raz, A., Harris, C. S., de Jong, V., & Braude, H. (2009). Is there a place for (deceptive) placebos within clinical practice? American Journal of Bioethics, 9(12), 52-54. 

Raz, A., & Bowles, E. (2009). Exploring posttraumatic stress disorder in the Light of Neuroscience. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology, 54(43), doi: 10.1037/a0017664  

Raz, A., Packard, M., Alexander, M., Buhle, J. T., Zhu, H., Yu, S., & Peterson, B. S. (2009) A slice of π: Exploratory neuroimaging of digit encoding and retrieval in a superior memorist. Neurocase, 15(5) 361-372

Raz, A. (2009) Varieties of Attention: A Research-Magician's Perspective. In G. Bernston and J. Cacioppo (Eds.), Handbook of Neuroscience for the Behavioural Sciences (pp. 361-369). Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Raz, A., Zhu, H., Yu, S., Bansal, R., Wang, Z., Alexander, G. M., Royal, J., & Peterson, B. S. (2009). Neural substrates of self-regulatory control in children and adults with Tourette Syndrome. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 54(9), 579-588.  

Raz, A., & Whatley, B. (2009) Consciousness reduced: Will neuroscience confine the mind to the brain? PsycCRITIQUES--Contemporary Psychology, 54(39). 

Raz, A., Zigman, P., & de Jong, V. (2009). Placebo Effects and Placebo Responses: Filling the Interstices with Meaning. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology, 54(33). doi: 10.1037/a0017356  

Raz, A. (2009, June 10). What is a Randomized Controlled Trial for the Canadian Institute of Health Research? [Letter to the editor]. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 54(6), 425−426, A. (2009).  

Raz, A., & Zigman, P., (2009). Emergent Effects of Investigating the Human Brain, PsycCRITIQUES--Contemporary Psychology, 54(16). doi: 10.1037/a0015244  

Raz, A., Hines, T., Fossella, J., & Castro, D. (2008). Paranormal Experience and the COMT Dopaminergic Gene: A Preliminary Attempt to Associate Phenotype with Genotype Using an Underlying Brain Theory. Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behaviour, 44(10), 1336-1341. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2007.07.011  

Raz, A., Raikhel, E., & Anbar, R. D. (2008). Placebos in medicine: Knowledge, beliefs, and patterns of use. McGill Journal of Medicine, 11(2), 206-211.

Raz, A., & Guindi, D. (2008). Placebos and medical education. McGill Journal of Medicine, 11(2), 223-226.

Raz, A., Schwartzman, D., & Guindi, D. (2008). Hemihypnosis, hypnosis, and the importance of knowing right from trend. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 51(2), 201-208.

Greene, D. J., Barnea, A., Hertzberg, K., Rassis, A., Neta, M., Raz, A., & Zaidel, E. (2008). Measuring attention in the hemispheres: The lateralized attention network test (LANT). Brain and Cognition, 66(1), 21-31.

Raz, A. (2008). Meeting of minds on anomalous cognition. Skeptical Inquirer, 32(4), 36-43.

Raz, A. (2008). The genetics and neuroimaging of attention and hypnotizability may elucidate placebo. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(1), 99-116. 

Raz, A., & Schwartzman, D. (2008). Eye movements and human behavior. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology, 53(4). doi: 10.1037/a0010525

Raz, A., & Michels, R. (2007). Contextualizing specificity: Specific and non-specific effects of treatment. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 50(2), 177-182.

Raz, A., Lamar, M., Buhle, J. T., Kane, M. J., & Peterson, B. S. (2007). 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-regulation. American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, 50(2), 137-156.

Raz, A., Moreno-Iniguez, M., Martin, L., & Zhu, H. (2007). Suggestion overrides the Stroop effect in highly hypnotizable individuals. Consciousness and Cognition, 16(2), 331-338.

Raz, A. (2007). A Commentary on Mumpsimus, Sumpsimus and the Mpemba Effect. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 50(2), 183-185.

Egner, T., & Raz, A. (2007). Cognitive Control Processes and Hypnosis. In G. A. Jamieson (Ed.), Hypnosis and Conscious States: The Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective (pp. 29-50). New York: Oxford University Press.

Raz, A. (2007). Suggestibility and hypnotizability: Mind the gap. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 49(3), 205-210. 

Raz, A. (2007). Hypnobo: Perspectives on Hypnosis and Placebo. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 50(1), 29-36. 

Raz, A., Keller, S., Norman, K., & Senechal, D. (2007). Elucidating Tourette's Syndrome: Perspectives from Hypnosis, Attention and Self-Regulation. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 49(4), 289-309.

Raz, A., & Buhle, J. (2006). Typologies of Attentional Networks. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 7(5), 367-379. 

Raz, A., Kirsch, I., Pollard, J., & Nitkin-Kaner, Y. (2006). Suggestion reduces the stroop effect. Psychological Science, 17(2), 91-95. 

Raz, A., Fan, J., & Posner, M. I. (2006). Neuroimaging and genetic associations of attentional and hypnotic processes. Journal of Physiology (Paris), 99(4-6), 483- 491.

Raz, A., & Fabrega, H. (2006). From repression and attention to culture and automaticity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(5) 530-531. 

Zhu, H., Xu, D., Raz, A., Hao, X., Zhang, H., Kangarlu, A., Bansal, R., & Peterson, B. S. (2006). A statistical framework for the classification of tensor morphologies in diffusion tensor images. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 24(5), 569-582.

Raz, A. (2006). Perspectives on the Efficacy of Antidepressants for Child and Adolescent Depression. PLoS Medicine, 3(1), e9.

Raz, A., & Harrington, J. K. (2006). Big Pharma vs. Small Patients. PsycCRITIQUES--Contemporary Psychology, 51(7). doi: 10.1037/04087512

Raz, A. (2006). Individual Differences and Attentional Varieties. Europa medicophysica, 42(1), 53-58.

Raz, A. (2006, September). Could certain frequencies of electromagnetic waves or
radiation interfere with brain function? Scientific American Mind,
29(4), 82.

Raz, A., Fan, J., & Posner, M. I. (2005). Hypnotic suggestion reduces conflict in the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(28), 9978-9983. 

Raz, A. (2005). A recent Perspective on Tourette's Syndrome: Breakthrough Genetics, a Broadway Musical, and an educational Documentary. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology, 50(42). doi: 10.1037/05246512

Raz, A., & Paasivirta, M. (2005). The Science and Fiction of Memory Removal. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology, 50(42). doi: 10.1037/04087512

Xu, D., Raz, A., Bansal, R., Zhu, H. T., Hao, X., Kangarlu, A., & Peterson, B. S. (2005, May). Fiber Density Map Based on Diffusion Tensor Image Data. In V. S. Lee (Chair), 13th Scientific Meeting and Exposition.  Symposium conducted at the meeting of the ISMRM 2005, Miami Beach, USA.

Moreno-Iñiguez, M., & Raz, A. (2005). Atypical attention. An alternative to pharmacological treatment for children and adolescents based on suggestion, motivation, and expectation. Revista De Psiquiatría Infanto-Juvenil, 22(3), 64-73.

Lamar, M., & Raz, A. (2005). Neuropsychological Assessment of Attention and Executive Functionning. In S. Ayers (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health & Medicine, (2nd ed. pp. 290-294). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Raz, A., Lieber, B., Soliman, F., Buhle, J., Posner, J., Peterson, B.S., & Posner, M. I. (2005). Ecological Nuances in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI): Psychological Stressors, Posture, and Hydrostatics. Neuroimage, 25(1), 1-7.

Raz, A. (2005). Attention and Hypnosis: Neural Substrates and Genetic Associations of Two Converging Processes. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 53(3), 237-258. 

Raz, A. (2004). Anatomy of attentional networks. Anatomical Record. Part B, New Anatomist, 281(1), 21-36. doi: 10.1002/ar.b.20035 

Raz, A. (2004). Brain Imaging of ADHD: Data from Children and Adults. Psychiatric Times, 21(9), 42-49.

Raz, A., Zephrani, Z. R., Schweizer, H. R., & Marinoff, G. P. (2004). Critique of Claims of Improved Visual Acuity After Hypnotic Suggestion. Optometry and Vision Science, 81(11), 872-879. 

Donchin, O., & Raz, A. (2004). Where in the Drain Does the Forward Model Lurk? Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 27(3), 402-403.

Raz, A., Marinoff, G. P., Landzberg, K.S., & Guyton, D. L. (2004). Substrates of negative accommodation. Binocular Vision & Strabismus Quarterly, 19(2), 71-74.

Raz, A. (2004). Atypical attention: Hypnosis and conflict reduction. In Posner M. I. (Ed.), Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention (pp. 420-429). New York: Guilford Press.

Raz, A., Marinoff, G. P., Zephrani, Z. R., Schweizer, H. R., & Posner, M. I. (2004). See clearly: suggestion, hypnosis, attention, and visual acuity. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 52(2), 159-187.

Raz, A. (2004). Attention. In C. Spielberger (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology (pp. 203-208). San Diego, CA: Elsevier Science Academic Press.

Raz, A., & Norman, K. (2004). Social Psychology Illuminates Cognitive Neuroscience. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 27(5), 673-674.

Raz, A. (2004). Neural substrates of attention. In G. Adelman & B. H. Smith (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (pp). New York: Elsevier Science. 

Raz, A., Fossella, J. A., McGuiness, P., Zephrani, Z. R., & Posner, M. I. (2004). Neural Correlates and Exploratory Genetic Associations of Attentional and Hypnotic Phenomena. Hypnose und Kognition: The official Journal of the Milton Erickson Society for Clinical Hypnosis2, 79-92.

Raz, A., Landzberg, K. S., Schweizer, H. R., Zephrani, Z. R., Shapiro, T., Fan, J., & Posner, M. I. (2003). Posthypnotic suggestion and the modulation of Stroop interference under cycloplegia. Consciousness and Cognition, 12(3), 332-346.

Raz, A., & Donchin, O. (2003). A Zetetic's Perspective on Gesture, Speech, and the Evolution of Right-Handedness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26(2), 237-238.

Fan, J., Raz, A., & Posner, M. I. (2003). Attentional Mechanisms. In Aminoff, M. J., Daroff, R. B. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Neurological Sciences (pp. 292-299). New York: Elsevier Science.

Raz, A., Shapiro, T., Fan, J., & Posner, M. I. (2002). Hypnotic suggestion and the modulation of Stroop interference. Archives of General Psychiatry, 59(12), 1155-61. 

Raz, A., Shapiro, T. (2002). Hypnosis and Neuroscience. CH Hypnose, The official journal of The Medical Society of Hypnosis (SMSH) and The Clinical Hypnosis Society (SHypS), 2(12), 4-16.

Cheour, M., Martynova, O., Näätänen, R., Erkkola, R., Sillanpää, M., Kero, P., Raz, A., Kaipio, M. L., Hiltunen, J., Aaltonen, O., Savela, J., & Hämäläinen, H. (2002). Speech Sounds Learned by Sleeping Newborns. Nature, 415(6872), 599-600.

Raz, A., & Shapiro, T. (2002). Hypnosis and neuroscience: a cross talk between clinical and cognitive research. Archives of General Psychiatry, 59(1), 85-90.

Fan, J., McCandliss, B. M., Sommer, T., Raz, A., & Posner, M. (2002). Testing the Efficiency and Independence of Attentional Networks. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14(3), 340-347.

Raz, A., Deouell, L. Y., & Bentin, S. (2001). Is pre-attentive processing compromised by prolonged wakefulness? Effects of total sleep deprivation on the mismatch negativity. Psychophysiology, 38(5), 787-795.

Raz, A. (1998). A popular guide to higher brain functions. Israel: The Open University of Israel Press.



 

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