Self hypnosis helps Tourettes sufferers

Source: CBS News Date: 12th July 2010 Children Subdue Tourette’s With Self-Hypnosis Menlo Park Doctor Shows 79% Success Rate “A Menlo Park doctor is helping pioneer a technique to help children with a debilitating disorder. And a new study shows it’s working for almost all the kids who have tried it.”  

Woman gives birth hypnotised in place of pain relief

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Date:8th April 2010 Source: Telegraph “When Louise Walker, 30, went into labour with baby Harrison she employed Paul Hazell, hypnotherapist, to put her into a trance. Mrs Walker, of Hull, East Yorks., said: “I am the biggest sceptic…”

How a placebo reduces pain: Scientists move closer to cause

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“The placebo effect – a phenomenon where symptoms can improve simply if a patient believes they are being treated – has long been recognised…”

‘Placebo effect’ is found to make biological changes in the body

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Source: New York Daily News Date: February 20th, 2010 “Popping a placebo may actually have a biological effect on the body after all. Researchers are finding evidence that faux treatments may actually result in physical changes. A review of placebo research appeared online Friday in Lancet, the British medical journal…”

Hypnosis ‘has real brain effect’

Date: 16th November 2009 Source: BBC News Hypnosis has a “very real” effect that can be picked up on brain scans, say Hull University researchers….

Placebos ‘becoming more effective’

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Date: Sep 4th, 2009 Source: The Telegraph ‘Just a placebo’ is a damning phrase. The administering of sugar pills, injections of saline solution and…