Frontiers in PsychologyJuly 22, 2026Nina Zech, Martin H. J. Busch, Veronika K. Jaeger et al.
Introduction Mind-body interventions (MBIs) increasingly used in health care include alterations in the ordinary state of consciousness that might be essential for their effects on psychological and physical patterns encoded in the unconscious. Little is known about the effects of repeated practice or the time of the repetitions. Methods EEG-derived Bispectral-Index (BIS) is clinically used to...
Frontiers in PsychologyJanuary 30, 2026Nina Zech, Martin H. J. Busch, Veronika K. Jaeger et al.
Introduction: Mind-body interventions are increasingly used in health care, both for physical and for psychological therapy. With directing the focus to the body and inner experiences they include elements of trance induction and hypnosis. The scope of this experimental study was to test the hypothesis that a non-ordinary state of consciousness may occur during a mind-body intervention with...
Hypnotic trance can be defined as a non-ordinary state of consciousness that is accompanied by a number of neurophysiological changes, including brain electrophysiology. In addition to subjective measures, corresponding objective parameters are needed in experimental and clinical hypnosis research but are complex, impractical, or unspecific. A similar challenge exists for the measurement and...