Hypnosis is a much misunderstood phenomenon. The layman tends to conceive of it in the most mystical terms, and there are many amateur Svengalis who, actually, know very little about what they are ...

Monica Soderberg, a licensed specialist clinical social worker at Lawrence Mental Health Collective and Acumen Institute, works closely with local doctors and uses hypnotherapy to help patients with ...

Believe it or not, you've likely experienced a hypnotic state of mind before, even if you've never actually gone to a hypnotist. It's a totally real thing, but oftentimes, people don't really know how ...

A multidisciplinary group of researchers from Finland and Sweden has found that the strange stare of patients under hypnosis may be a key that can eventually lead to a solution to a long debate about ...

Hypnosis has had a long and controversial history in psychology, psychiatry and neurology. For the past hundred years, researchers have debated whether or not hypnosis really involves an altered ...

Distinct areas of the brain show altered activity and connectivity during hypnotic trances in individuals who are highly hypnotizable, researchers have discovered. These changes in neural activity ...

Imagery typically is used as part of clinical hypnosis, but effective hypnosis therapy can also be provided without use of imagery. When imagery is used, patients can be taught to imagine themselves: ...

Most people agree that hypnosis does something to your brain — specifically something that makes people make fools of themselves at hypnotist shows. But how does it actually affect the human brain?

The sleep-aid Ambien is powerful enough to leave people unaware of things they have done, a Boone toxicologist testified Wednesday in the trial of a man accused of opening fire inside a Carthage ...