Publications by authors named "Merve Gulser"
Relations among behavioral, psychological, and electrophysiological correlates of Linguistic Empathy were examined in two experiments using lateralized stimuli. Linguistic Empathy is defined as a linguistic manifestation of the point of view the speaker assumes toward the content of the utterance, and of the speaker's attitude toward/identification with the referents therein. Linguistic choices made by the speaker among multiple logically and referentially synonymous lexical and grammatical options reveal the speaker's perspectives.
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- Hypnosis alters the sense of agency and may serve as a non-drug option for managing pain, particularly in patients with fibromyalgia.
- Ninety-eight fibromyalgia patients were assessed for their hypnotizability and sense of agency regarding pain, with results indicating that responsiveness to specific suggestions (like control and ideomotor) predicted feelings of involuntariness and effortlessness.
- While hypnotizability showed a correlation with clinical pain outcomes, changes in the sense of agency did not, highlighting potential shared mechanisms that warrant further exploration in pain management strategies.
Objective: New antidepressant treatments are needed that are effective, rapid acting, safe, and tolerable. Intermittent theta-burst stimulation (iTBS) is a noninvasive brain stimulation treatment that has been approved by the U.S.
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