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What did it take to get people not to feel pain from sticking hand in water?

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hypnotic trance + specific suggestions

ACC activity decrease correlated with decreased perception of pain

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What are 2 areas of the brain involved pain sensation?

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Somatosensory cortex

ACC - the affective component of pain

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What’s the take-home point from the experiments where subjects were asked to image images as grey or colored?

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Hypnosis is more than imagination. It actually changes brain activity corresponding to the sensory modalities altered.