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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 10 (HealthDay News) -- The brains of people who can't be hypnotized differ from those who are easily put into a trance, a new study finds. <\/p>\n
Researchers used MRI scans to examine activity of three different brain networks in 12 adults who were easily hypnotized and 12 others who weren't. <\/p>\n
The brain networks were: the default-mode network, used when the brain is idle; the executive-control network, used in making decisions; and the salience network, used when deciding if something is more important than something else. <\/p>\n
The brain scans showed that both groups had an active default-mode network, but the highly hypnotizable people had greater co-activation between parts of the executive-control network and the salience network, the Stanford University School of Medicine researchers found. <\/p>\n
The study was published in the October issue of the journal Archives of General Psychiatry. <\/p>\n
Hypnosis, which has been shown to help with brain control over sensation and behavior, can be used to help treat pain, phobias, stress and anxiety, the study authors noted in a Stanford news release. <\/p>\n
\"There's never been a brain signature of being hypnotized, and we're on the verge of identifying one,\" study senior author Dr. David Spiegel, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, said in the news release. <\/p>\n
Such a finding would shed light on how hypnosis works, and how it can most effectively be used to treat patients, Spiegel explained. <\/p>\n
He said about 25 percent of the patients he sees cannot be hypnotized. \"There's got to be something going on in the brain,\" Spiegel concluded. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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