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...study, conducted by Lindsley Professor of Psychology Stephen Kosslyn and Stanford Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science David Spiegel, showed that hypnosis is more than the power of suggestion as it measurably impacts the brain’s functioning...
...Kosslyn said hypnosis, which he defined as a “state of focused attention,” may be able to aid individuals in a myriad of endeavors. For example, he said that competitive athletes could use hypnosis to enhance visualization exercises...
...disciplines: Thomas Cech, who heads the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1989, while Herbert Pardes, the president of New York Presbyterian Hospital, teaches psychiatry at Columbia, and J. Richard Gott is an astrophysicist at Princeton. M.I.T.'s Steven Pinker and Harvard's Stephen Kosslyn specialize in brain and cognitive sciences; Thomas Lovejoy is a tropical biologist who serves as chief biodiversity adviser to the president of the World Bank; and Michael Novacek, provost of science at the American Museum of Natural History, is a vertebrate paleontologist...
...unique combination of technical rigor and creative intelligence," says Stephen Kosslyn, a professor of psychology at Harvard University...
...panel of scientific advisors, which included Steven Pinker, MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences, and Stephen Kosslyn, Professor of Psychology, chose the 18 winners from a list of 100 experts in science and medicine...