Underground Hypnosis

A slightly belated list of quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: Secrets of Hypnosis is a cheap-ass website hawking dodgy-looking hypnosis CDs that has completely ripped off Mind Hacks without attribution. A four thousand year old violent attack is uncovered through the analysis of a neolithic grave reported in Science News . The New York Times has an update on the recent episode over the public release of the Rorschach ink blot images on Wikipedia. Qu

Neuroeconomist and scholar Gregory Berns has an interesting piece in the New York Times on how In Hard Times Fear Can Impair Decision-Making - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/jobs/07pre.html - which is worth the read. I know, you're thinking this is one of those "well, duh" moments but it has more to say than that. His comparison of the workplace to a Skinner box is apt and his description of his work as a neuroeconomist - a brain scientist who looks into the neurology of decisions - is fas

What comes around, just keeps comin' around. Welcome to the twenty-first century when important business decisions are guided by psychics. The New York Times just printed a feature on how more businesses are turning to psychics to help them weather the economic downturn. I realize that the following will offend the sensibilities of some of my readers, please bear with it and breathe deeply and relax around any of the inherent prejudices I might exhibit here or that you might experience in your

Hypnosis has been mired in controversy for two centuries, and its benefits are often overstated, but it can help patients.