{"id":180392,"date":"2024-01-13T04:27:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T10:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/unlocking-hypnosis-stanford-enhances-brain-power-with-neurostimulation"},"modified":"2024-01-13T04:27:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T10:27:21","slug":"unlocking-hypnosis-stanford-enhances-brain-power-with-neurostimulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/unlocking-hypnosis-stanford-enhances-brain-power-with-neurostimulation","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking Hypnosis: Stanford Enhances Brain Power With Neurostimulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unlocking-hypnosis-stanford-enhances-brain-power-with-neurostimulation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Stanford Medicine scientists used transcranial magnetic stimulation to temporarily enhance hypnotizability in patients with chronic pain, making them better candidates for hypnotherapy.<\/strong><\/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 study, published on January 4 in <em><i>Nature Mental Health<\/i><\/em>, 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford Medicine scientists used transcranial magnetic stimulation to temporarily enhance hypnotizability in patients with chronic pain, making them better candidates for hypnotherapy. 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, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180392","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\/180392","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}