A team of researchers from the StanfordUniversity School of Medicine has identified key areas of the humanbrain that, under stimulation, could make a person more susceptible to hypnosis. Clinical ...

Yesterday, I told you about researchers who visualized the effects of stress on the human brain. Let's focus today on the activities of our brain during and after hypnosis, with the help of the New ...

Despite what Halloween lore might have you believe, hypnosis isn't all about swinging watches, magic spells and mind control. It is the oldest Western conception of psychotherapy and, in mainstream ...

Highway hypnosis is difficult to pin down, but it can pose some real risks for drivers logging a lot of hours on the freeway.

In a new study, researchers showcased that the way our brain processes information is fundamentally altered during hypnosis. The research helps to understand how hypnosis produces changes in a ...

Although hypnosis has been shown to reduce pain perception, it is not clear how the technique works. Identifying a sound, scientific explanation for hypnosis' effect might increase acceptance and ...

Three studies at the University of Zurich demonstrate that hypnosis alters activity in the large-scale functional networks of the brain. It also affects the neurochemical milieu of specific brain ...

When Dr. David Spiegel emerged from a three-hour shoulder surgery in 1972, he didn’t use any pain meds to recover. Instead, he hypnotized himself. It worked—to the surprise of everyone but Dr. Spiegel ...

NEW YORK — How can a hypnotist paralyze your hand just with words? By making a part of your brain butt in on the process that normally makes your hand move, a study says. So the brain region that’s ...

The Brain itself does not feel pain unlike other organs and having the patient awake and not sedated is very helpful in ensuring minimal brain disruption during surgery. I remember reading a number of ...

“HONESTLY, I wondered whether I was actually in labour, because surely it was meant to be more painful than this.” That’s Shona, describing the recent birth of her daughter. Her secret? Hypnosis.