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Innovative VR sessions tackle mental health challenges in students

St George's, University of London have led revolutionary work to improve student mental health by using sessions in Virtual Reality (VR) to reduce stress and anxiety.

9 Apr 2024

Stanford Medicine researchers demonstrate new way to temporarily heighten hypnotizablity

How deeply someone can be hypnotized -; known as hypnotizability -; appears to be a stable trait that changes little throughout adulthood, much like personality and IQ.

4 Jan 2024

Psychologists warn about the dangers of rising psychological pseudoscience

A rise in psychological pseudoscience is putting people at risk, psychologists have warned, with social media and celebrity endorsements partly to blame.

24 Oct 2023

SIO and ASCO recommend mindfulness-based interventions for anxiety, depression in cancer patients

The Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) formally recommend mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) and other integrative therapies to manage anxiety and depression symptoms in adults living with cancer.

16 Aug 2023

Hypnosis offers new hope for people with spinal cord injury pain

Hypnosis was effective in helping people with recent spinal cord injuries learn coping strategies to fight chronic pain, a new study shows. Almost 90% of participants reported benefit from the treatment.

26 Jul 2023

The truth about hypnosis: Debunking common myths

A strange mystic swings a pocket watch back and forth, repeating the phrase "You're getting sleepy, very sleepy," giving them absolute command over their subject.

11 Jul 2023

UCSF's new pain clinic in Walnut Creek offers hope for children with chronic pain

Each year, too many kids in the East Bay suffer needlessly from pain related to long-term serious illness, including migraines, joint and abdominal pain, sickle cell anemia and more. A new UCSF Health pain clinic in Walnut Creek is opening to provide relief.

11 Jul 2023

Tactile perception can be altered by our mental processes, study shows

Do we always perceive the world in the same way? A hypnosis experiment proves that we certainly don’t.

11 May 2023

A rapid and affordable in vitro model to test SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility in animal species

Research investigates the susceptibility of seven bat species to SARS-CoV-2 by expressing their ACE2 receptor in a non-permissive avian cell line. The study found that all seven bat species were susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, but the level of virus replication differed between bat species and virus variants.

24 Apr 2023

Point-of-care test identifies patients who may benefit from hypnosis interventions for pain treatment

Hypnosis is an effective treatment for pain for many individuals but determining which patients will benefit most can be challenging. Hypnotizability testing requires special training and in-person evaluation rarely available in the clinical setting.

15 Mar 2023

Study shows how ketamine administration starkly changes neuronal activity patterns in the brain

Ketamine, an established anesthetic and increasingly popular antidepressant, dramatically reorganizes activity in the brain, as if a switch had been flipped on its active circuits, according to a new study by Penn Medicine researchers.

1 Dec 2022

Evidence-based study shows how hypnotherapy provides positive outcomes for IBS patients

It is common that Hong Kong people might have experiences of disordered defecation with unknown reason, such as diarrhea and constipation. It is also easy to observe that abdominal discomforts often come along with stress. Emotion disturbance and stress might affect our intestinal functions.

14 Jun 2022

Hypnosis News and Research

Innovative VR sessions tackle mental health challenges in students

Stanford Medicine researchers demonstrate new way to temporarily heighten hypnotizablity

Psychologists warn about the dangers of rising psychological pseudoscience

SIO and ASCO recommend mindfulness-based interventions for anxiety, depression in cancer patients

Hypnosis offers new hope for people with spinal cord injury pain

The truth about hypnosis: Debunking common myths

UCSF's new pain clinic in Walnut Creek offers hope for children with chronic pain

Tactile perception can be altered by our mental processes, study shows

A rapid and affordable in vitro model to test SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility in animal species

Point-of-care test identifies patients who may benefit from hypnosis interventions for pain treatment

Study shows how ketamine administration starkly changes neuronal activity patterns in the brain

Evidence-based study shows how hypnotherapy provides positive outcomes for IBS patients

New Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative & Integrative Medicine launched with a $3 million gift

Music therapy can be an attractive option to manage menopause symptoms and depressed mood

Novel intervention for stress shows positive results in pilot study

World-famous psychological experiment dismissed as not fit-for-purpose

EHRA 2020: Latest practice-changing research in heart rhythm disorders

In campaign to stop teen vaping, states turn to tried-and-true remedy: taxes

Study highlights role of mind-body therapies in addressing opioid-treated pain

Review provides new recommendations to manage menopausal symptoms after breast cancer

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

From Puberty to Menopause: Clue’s CEO, Audrey Tsang on the Power of Femtech

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