Nolan Williams, MD, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, director of the Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab, and co-study leader with David Spiegel, MD, of “Stanford Hypnosis Integrated with Functional Connectivity-targeted Transcranial Stimulation (SHIFT): a preregistered randomized controlled Trial” published in Nature Mental Health.
Of all the various mind-body disciplines, hypnosis is probably the most misunderstood. Misconceptions from portrayals on television and in movies—scenes of people being hypnotized into...
