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Failure of Hypnotic Suggestion to Alter Immune Response to Delayed‐Type Hypersensitivity Antigens a
Author(s) -
LOCKE STEVEN E.,
RANSIL BERNARD J.,
COVINO NICHOLAS A.,
TOCZYDLOWSKI JANICE,
LOHSE CHRISTOPHER M.,
DVORAK HAROLD F.,
ARNDT KENNETH A.,
FRANKEL FRED H.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1987.tb35841.x
Subject(s) - hypnotic , delayed hypersensitivity , immune system , antigen , skin test , medicine , immunology , psychology , dermatology , anesthesia , pathology , tuberculosis
The ability to alter delayed-type hypersensitivity via hypnotic suggestion was tested in 12 highly hypnotizable, untrained subjects and 30 nonhypnotized controls. Subjects were skin-tested bilaterally with a standardized panel of delayed hypersensitivity antigens and instructed either to enhance or suppress the skin test response unilaterally. Compared with results in controls, the skin test response reflected no effect of hypnotic suggestion with regard to either the area of induration or the degree of inflammation assessed histologically.