Previous studies have shown that certain subjects, highly susceptible to deep hypnosis, display neurological and electrical activity similar to that of a newborn infant. This was accomplished with appropriate suggestions introduced during hypnosis. In this study, four out of five subjects with a high susceptibility to hypnosis showed a remarkable quantity of high amplitude EEG theta and delta waves (2-4 Hz), reaching 50 to 150 microvolts. Coincidentally all subjects demonstrated behavioral and neurological reflex symptoms appropriate to the infancy state. No similar changes were observed with the same subjects who were given identical suggestions, but without hypnotic induction. A second group with only a slight susceptibility to hypnosis were used as controls. Under hypnosis these subjects did not show any change in their EEG patterns or the appearance of any neurological reflexes. The possibility exists that under hypnosis we were able to stimulate the subjects' unconscious memory of infantile reflexes. Under the influence of very deep hypnosis, subjects revived their memory in some unknown way, producing the ascribed reactions and EEG patterns.The object of the present experiment was to investigate brainwaves in the study of attempted hypnotic age regression to infancy. We used the EEG to determine which area of the subject's brain was operative and which brainwaves were functional during the hypnotically evoked infancy period. This approach was stimulated by preliminary brainwave studies by Mirzoyants [1] and Shepovalnikov [2] .The investigation of brainwaves has shown that the central areas of the infant's brain, during the first few weeks of life, are most capable of establishing connections with other regions of the brain. This interrelating activity appears to diminish with the progression of age and ontogenesis of the brain, leaving an apparent gap between the memory of infancy and the later formed consciousness. The motoric cortex, in the first few weeks of life, is the most 115
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