Magnetoencephalography monitoring of hypnosis-induced modulation of event-related brain responses by hypnosis
Hafid Sid-Ahmed, Julie Alayrangues, Lilia Langar, Nelly Richard, Véronique Albaladejo, Stéphane Pezzani, Virginie Brun, Daniel Anglade, Vincent Auboiroux · 2026
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Hafid Sid-Ahmed and co-authors measure brain responses to sound during hypnosis in a 2026 study. Hypnosis sees growing medical use, yet doctors lack a firm signal to tell how deep a patient's trance runs.
Twenty volunteers heard mostly repeated tones with rare odd ones mixed in, under three states: alert focus, distraction by a story, and hypnotic trance. A magnetic brain scanner tracked the responses in the hearing cortex and at the scalp. Responses shrank in both trance and distraction compared with alert focus. Trance and distraction differed only slightly. The authors suggest the shrunken response could serve as a rough gauge of the hypnotic state.
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| CREATOR | Hafid Sid-Ahmed, Julie Alayrangues, Lilia Langar, Nelly Richard, Véronique Albaladejo, Stéphane Pezzani, Virginie Brun, Daniel Anglade, Vincent Auboiroux |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 71 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |