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...resonance imaging, which captures differences in blood flow in the brain, researchers have produced the strongest evidence yet of how the placebo effect works. In a study conducted at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Health System, the University of Michigan and Princeton, the subjects were given harmless but frequently painful electric shocks and then provided with what they were told was a pain-relieving cream. After the bogus cream was applied, nerve activity in the brains of the volunteers changed. The prefrontal cortex, involved in easing pain, became more active, while regions involved in sensing pain quieted down. When...
...scientist, he embraced the logic of hypnobirthing: if women are terrified of childbirth, the fight-or-flight reflex kicks in once the contractions start. This reflex shuts down organs that are nonessential to fighting and fleeing, including the uterus. With reduced blood flow, the uterus cramps, causing pain. If women could relax, the theory goes, they would experience no pain, have more effective contractions and therefore a shorter labor...
...stumbled out of bed, bleary-eyed and eight months pregnant, to find a message from Dan Gilman: his wife Laura Beth was in labor. I had never met the Gilmans, but they had generously invited me to witness the birth of their third child. They were using a pain-control technique I was learning myself: hypnobirthing...
...what hypnobirthing proponents kept telling me--that mothers who use this method of self-hypnosis to give birth in a trance-like, deeply relaxed state often enjoy miraculously short labors. "He came out 28 minutes after my waters broke," Laura Beth told me. "and I was not in pain. I was able to really relax...
...wasn't an easy convert to hypnobirthing. For a start, hypnosis made me think of a traveling showman inducing an audience member to dance like a chicken. On top of that, my mother, her mother, every mother I'd ever met had drummed into me that childbirth was agony. Pain-free labor? Yeah, right. But my husband Alex--a doctor who sniggered every time my prenatal-yoga video urged me to open up like a lotus blossom--was hypnobirthing's unlikely champion...