just stephen lawrence at the university hospital m.e.h. studies the brain activity of people in trance states his findings show a clear change in brain wave activity. often enough that. in a normal state of the areas responsible for perception or blue under hypnosis however there is a kind of shutdown the neural network becomes dormant with no sign of brain activity in. despair. or in stark contrast the parts of the brain that control emotion and imagination that active as if someone is really seeing feeling or experiencing something pain stimuli perceived but not experienced as such. this means stimuli of processed in the brain differently. researchers think that not only is activity altered within regions of the brain but also within the connections between the different brain regions. hypnosis can even replace general anesthesia using only pain medication and local anesthesia like hit during a deep brain stimulation procedure as a whole is drilled in the patient's skull neurosurgeon report right here out incorporates the sounds into the hypnosi