{"id":179893,"date":"2024-01-05T13:22:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T19:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/high-tech-brain-stimulation-can-make-people-more-hypnotizable"},"modified":"2024-01-05T13:22:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T19:22:48","slug":"high-tech-brain-stimulation-can-make-people-more-hypnotizable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/high-tech-brain-stimulation-can-make-people-more-hypnotizable","title":{"rendered":"High-Tech Brain Stimulation Can Make People More Hypnotizable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-tech-brain-stimulation-can-make-people-more-hypnotizable.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How deeply someone can be hypnotized \u2014 known as hypnotizability \u2014 appears to be a stable trait that changes little throughout adulthood, much like personality and IQ. But now, for the first time, Stanford Medicine researchers have demonstrated a way to temporarily heighten hypnotizablity \u2014 potentially allowing more people to access the benefits of hypnosis-based therapy.<\/p>\n<p>In the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44220-023-00184-z\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, published Jan. 4 in <i>Nature Mental Health<\/i>, the researchers found that less than two minutes of electrical stimulation targeting a precise area of the brain could boost participants\u2019 hypnotizability for about one hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know hypnosis is an effective treatment for many different symptoms and disorders, in particular pain,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/afaerman\" target=\"_blank\">Afik Faerman<\/a>, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in psychiatry and lead author of the study. \u201cBut we also know that not everyone benefits equally from hypnosis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How deeply someone can be hypnotized \u2014 known as hypnotizability \u2014 appears to be a stable trait that changes little throughout adulthood, much like personality and IQ. But now, for the first time, Stanford Medicine researchers have demonstrated a way to temporarily heighten hypnotizablity \u2014 potentially allowing more people to access the benefits of hypnosis-based [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}