The Neuroscience of Being Human

The Neuroscience of Hypnotherapy

What actually happens in the brain during clinical hypnosis, why trance is a measurable neurological state rather than a parlour trick, and how modern neuroscience has validated a therapeutic approach that mainstream medicine spent a century dismissing

The Neuroscience of Hypnotherapy

1,614-word article with 8 Harvard references.

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Hypnotherapy has suffered from a credibility problem that has nothing to do with the evidence. The stage hypnotist, the swinging watch, the idea that hypnosis means surrendering control to someone else: these images have lodged in public consciousness so firmly that even some clinicians dismiss hypnotherapy without examining the data. This fully referenced article explores what neuroimaging has revealed about the hypnotic state, how clinical hypnosis modifies activity in the prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and default mode network, and why the neuroscience of hypnotherapy now stands on ground that is considerably firmer than its reputation.

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