Introduction 1. Previews and prospects for the cognitive neroscience of hypnosis and conscious states,Graham A Jamieson Part I - Functional Brain Networks 2. Hypnotic regulation of consciousness and the pain neuromatrix,Melanie Boly, Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville, Brent Vogt, Pierre Maquet & Steven Laureys 3. Cognitive control processes and hypnosis,Tobias Egner & Amir Raz 4. Cortical mechanisms of hypnotic pain control,Wolfgang H R Miltner & Thomas Weiss 5. Phase-ordered gamma oscillations and the modulation of hypnotic experience,Vilfredo de Pascalis Part II - Dissociation 6. Hypnosis and the unity of consciousness,Tim Bayne 7. Dissociated control as a paradigm for cognitive-neuroscience research and theorising in hypnosis,Graham A Jamieson & Erik Woody Part III - States of Consciousness 8. New paradigms of hypnosis research,Graham A Jamieson & Harutomo Hasegawa 9. Hypnosis and neuroscience: implications for the altered state debate,Steven Jay Lynn, Irving Kirsch, Josh Knox & Scott O Lilienfeld 10. An empirical-phenomenological approach to quantifying consciousness and states of consciousness: with particular reference to understanding the nature of hypnosis,Ronald J Pekala & V Krishna Kumar 11. On the contribution of neurophysiology to hypnosis research: current state and future directions,Adrian Burgess Part IV - The Psychobiology of Trance 12. The experience of consciousnesss and hypnosis from an evolutionary perspective,William J Ray 13. To see feelingly: emotion, motivation and hypnosis,Erik Woody & Henry Szechtman 14. States of absorption: in search of neurobiologial foundations,Ulrich Ott 15. Time distortion, and the nature of hypnosis and consciousness,Peter L N Naish 16. Executive control withoul3z