Matthew G. Whalley

TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed significant changes during this hypnotically induced pain experience within the thalamus and anterior cingulate, insula, prefrontal, and parietal cortices, providing the first direct experimental evidence in humans linking specific neural activity with the immediate generation of a pain experience.

TL;DR: Enhanced suggestibility under LSD may have implications for its use as an adjunct to psychotherapy, where suggestibility plays a major role, and the results imply that individuals with high trait conscientiousness are especially sensitive to the suggestibility-enhancing effects of LSD.

TL;DR: Results provide evidence for the greater efficacy of suggestion following a hypnotic induction and indicate direct involvement of a network of areas widely associated with the pain ‘neuromatrix’ in fibromyalgia pain experience.

TL;DR: A large number of flashbacks in patients with PTSD are associated with decreased rather than increased MTL activation, and these responses may correspond to familiarity rather than recollection responses.

TL;DR: Commonalities in areas of brain volume in patients with PTSD and those with major depression are identified, suggesting that existing findings concerning reductions in prefrontal areas in particular may not be specific to PTSD but rather related to features of the disorder that are shared with other conditions, such as depression.