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    Neuroscience of Music and Hypnosis: How They Affect the Brain

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    16 apr 2026
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    Explore the fascinating link between the neuroscience of music and hypnosis. Discover how auditory processing and brain responses create deep hypnotic states.

    Neuroscience of Music and Hypnosis: How They Affect the Brain

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    The very thing you are listening to is what allows you to stop listening to everything else. It is a paradox: a simple rhythm can act as a key that fits perfectly into a specific lock in our brain, allowing the outside world to just fade away.

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    The neuroscience of music and how it's similar to hypnosis

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    Neurochemical dynamics during two hypnotic states evidenced by magnetic resonance spectroscopy | Scientific Reports
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    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-80795-3?error=cookies_not_supported&code=c6a4e959-1c05-4795-871c-ebdc357ed335
    Brain Oscillations, Hypnosis, and Hypnotizability
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    https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4361031/
    Frontiers | The strength of neural entrainment to electronic music correlates with proxies of altered states of consciousness
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    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2025.1574836/full
    Neural Correlates of a Trance Process and Alternative States of Consciousness in a Traditional Healer - PMC
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    https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8070722/
    Neural correlates of rhythm induced trance: Evidence from fcMRI and EEG | MPI-IS
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    https://is.mpg.de/publications/hovehhsc2018
    Brain Activity and Functional Connectivity Associated with Hypnosis - PubMed
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    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27469596/

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    The Rhythm of the Unconscious—How Sound Becomes a Key

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    The Symphony of Networks—Defining the Brain's Internal Players

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    Neural Entrainment—When Brainwaves March to the Beat

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    The Quieting of the Guard Dog—Deactivating the dACC

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    Dissociation and the Fading Spotlight of the Self

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    The Reward Circuit—Dopamine and the Anticipation of the Drop

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    Shamanic Roots—The Ancient Technology of the Drum

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    The Spectrum of Suggestibility—Why Some "Trip" Harder Than Others

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    Practical Playbook—Using Rhythm and Trance in Your Life

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    A Shared Neural Symphony—Final Reflections

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