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 ...

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 ...

Professor of Medicine David Spiegel was recently named as the 2014 recipient of the Joan and Stanford Alexander Award in recognition of his research on stress and health. The Daily sat down with ...

Psychiatrists have been using hypnosis on patients for decades — to help them reduce their pain or kick a smoking habit, among other reasons. To tackle that question, David Spiegel, a psychiatrist at ...

Hypnosis is less like getting very, very sleepy and more like focusing intently on something, says Katie Duchscherer, 21, a Stanford University psychology student. She's a frequent participant in ...

THURSDAY, July 28, 2016 -- Skeptics view hypnosis as a little-understood parlor trick, but a new study reveals real changes occur in the brain when a person enters an hypnotic state. Some parts of the ...

The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) Evening Lecture speaker Dr. David Spiegel, Associate Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford School of Medicine in California, had ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reveri, the clinically-backed self-hypnosis app, today launches its new Quit Vaping content to help people effectively curb vaping habits and nicotine addiction. Reveri ...

The notion that some evil eminence might use mass hypnosis over television is older than 1984, but nobody outside fiction has ever proved it possible. Last week a reputable Manhattan psychiatrist who ...

The unique effects of hypnosis on the brain suggest that it can be a powerful way to relieve pain—and might even be an alternative to opioids, one expert believes When Dr. David Spiegel emerged from a ...