EFFECT OF HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS ON EVOKED POTENTIALS

Abstract

1 Neurophysiology Laboratories, Veterans Administration Hospital, 500 Foothil Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah 84113; and Division of Neurology and Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, University of Utah, College of Medicine, Salt Lake City. This research was carried out in the laboratorics of Professor Henri Gastaut, Directeur de l'Unité de Recherches Neurobiologiques de l'Institut National d'Hygiène, Marscille, France. It was supported in part by U.S.P.H.S. Grant M-3258, and the Wissenschaftlichen Fonds der Gemeinde Wien. Acknowledgement is given Dr. Robert Dustman for his help with statistical ana'ysis and Mr. kenneth Dimick for his skillful production of the illustrations. An abridged version of this paper was presented at the Autumn, 1962, meeting of the Austrian EEG Society in Viena. 2 First Neurological Department of the Wiener Städtische Nervenheilanstalt Roscnhügel, Vienna, Austria.