At the end of the operation, the neurosurgeon declared that he had never before encountered a patient so calm and at ease during an awake brain surgery. When the living and breathing body of a 71-year ...

Does hypnosis have the power to change physiology? Based on her experience, my friend believes that the answer is a resounding “Yes!” In January of 2023, I was interviewed by Fran Caudron for her ...

Patients suffering from obesity wore hospital gowns and lay on the operating table, but instead of anesthesia, they underwent ...

LONDON -- As the surgeons cut into her neck, Marianne Marquis was thinking of the beach. As she heard the doctors' voices, she was imagining her toes in the sand, the water lapping. Marquis had been ...

Patients undergoing a new weight loss 'surgery' have slashed their cravings and their body weight by more than 10 percent, a study shows. As obesity becomes more and more pervasive in the US, with ...

Some plastic and facial surgeons in Germany also use hypnosis, as well as some British dental surgeons.The French Society of Anesthesiologists describes hypnosis as a valid way to supplement ...

Many years ago I participated in a few of these surgeries, helping with the intra-operative cognitive testing. The patients were sedated (but awake) also during the cutting part... I remember that ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Women who underwent hypnosis before breast cancer surgery needed less anesthesia and had fewer side effects than women who got counseling instead, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

Patients enter an operating room, but instead of undergoing an actual surgical procedure – they experience all stages of a “gastric sleeve surgery” under hypnosis only.