Characteristic The Hard Easy and the hypnotized

TV shows got crowded presenting shows about magic and hypnosis. There is even one of the programs that show how the behavior of funny people who successfully hypnotized in public.

Hypnosis is also often used as a method of fraud is rampant. Actually, is there any way resist hypnosis?

Scientists at Stanford University in the United States have found that people who are vulnerable are people who are easily hypnotized decide something and have a good attention skills. But people who have fixed habits and quickly make judgments tend to be difficult to be hypnotized.

Hypnosis is described as a trance state with the ability to focus and high concentration. This method is widely used to help relieve the pain, anxiety and phobias. Hypnosis is often used to reduce stress-related conditions.

As many as a quarter of the population it can not be hypnotized. To find out why, Dr. David Spiegel observed 12 people who are vulnerable hypnotized and 12 people are relatively immune.

He saw activity on three different brain tissues, the default-mode network that is used when the brain is relaxed, executive-control network involved in decision-making and salience networks were important to prioritize things.

In a report published the journal Archives of General Psychiatry, Dr. Spiegel and his team found no differences between the structure of the brains of both groups.

But when looking at participants' brain at rest, the brains of people who are easily hypnotized exhibit different activities. In these people, the most active area of ​​the brain is at rest area decided to focus on something.

At rest, both groups had an active default network mode. But the people who easily hypnotized, networks and network decisions that prioritize things look more active.

Brain areas involved in focusing attention also active. While on the hard trance, the relationship between the two networks is very weak.

"People are very easy to be hypnotized is all that the people can think of a thing without distracted by other thoughts. They can use his mind to imagine something of himself," said Dr. Spiegel as reported by the Los Angeles Times.

According to Dr. Spiegel, in everyday life, people can be hypnotized very easily distinguished from the less people can be hypnotized. They are easily distracted by things that are interesting for himself and tends to keep a schedule or an appointment late because often lose track of time.

Conversely, people who are immune to the hypnotic prone to judge others, keeping habits and less trusting of others.

Dr Spiegal said that he almost found the brain characteristic that can be used to determine who can and who can not be hypnotized.