| Hypnosis imaging is becoming very popular with | | | | told to imagine the scenario the brain showed no |
| doctors today. There have been many findings about | | | | activity but 8 of the 10 patients experienced |
| hypnosis through the practice of imaging. Many of | | | | hallucinations. |
| the findings include pain reduction, hallucinations, and | | | | It is also proven through hypnosis imaging that |
| more. | | | | patients see colors when they normally would not. |
| A brain acts very differently when a person is | | | | For instance, a hypnotized patient would look at |
| hypnotized rather than when a person is not. The | | | | something colorless and actually see colors. Patients |
| use of hypnosis imaging is finding many differences. | | | | also experienced situations where they were unable |
| The use of hypnosis imaging is the use of an MRI on | | | | to make simple everyday decisions under hypnosis. |
| a patient while they are under hypnosis. The doctor | | | | Some patients who were very literate would look at |
| will do a full brain scan and look at the different | | | | a common English word and believe the word to be |
| nerves and parts of the brain. The doctors will | | | | gibberish unable to sound it out or tell the doctors |
| examine parts of the brain that feel pain, see colors, | | | | what the words were. |
| and how the brain is responding while under hypnosis. | | | | It has become evident to doctors that the brain |
| Hypnosis imaging has shown that the reactors in the | | | | reacts very differently when a person is under |
| brain which cause a person to feel pain are not as | | | | hypnosis. In some cases a patient might be |
| active while a person is under hypnosis. This means | | | | extremely advanced and in others the person may |
| that if a person is feeling severe abdominal pain and | | | | lose all of their intellect and reasoning abilities. |
| they are put under hypnosis, the activity in the brain | | | | Hypnosis affects brains differently in different |
| is redirected to another function and the person is | | | | situations. Many people have benefit from hypnosis in |
| not feeling the pain. The top level of the brain is the | | | | situations of overcoming emotional traumatic events, |
| part of the brain which is responsible for 'feeling' the | | | | pain reduction, and more. Today, the use of hypnosis |
| pain. This area of the brain has a lower amount of | | | | is becoming questionable because of the evident |
| activity while a person is under hypnosis. | | | | altered state of mind patients are proving to be in |
| Hypnosis imaging also showed the same brain activity | | | | with the use of imaging devices. |
| in many patients under hypnosis in the anterior | | | | Hypnosis imaging is the analyzing of the brain while a |
| cingulated cortex. When patients were told a scenario | | | | patient is under hypnosis through the use of an MRI. |
| not under hypnosis their brains showed a certain | | | | This allows doctors to see the different ways the |
| pattern. When the patients were put under hypnosis | | | | brain reacts or does not react under hypnosis when |
| and told the same scenario their brains responded the | | | | given different circumstances. |
| same. When the patients were under hypnosis and | | | | |