Not everyone is able to be hypnotized, and new research from
the Stanford University School of Medicine shows how the brains of such people
differ from those who can easily be.
The study, published in the October issue of Archives of
General Psychiatry, uses data from functional and structural magnetic resonance
imaging to identify how the areas of the brain associated with executive
control and attention tend to have less activity in people who cannot be put
into a hypnotic trance.