Globe and Mail: From magic trick to medical treatment
Before he was a neuroscientist, Amir Raz was a magician.聽He regularly performed stage shows to finance his university studies, but resisted introducing hypnosis to his act because he didn鈥檛 understand the science underlying the crowd-pleasing stunt.聽鈥淭he scientist in me would not let me perform it without understanding the mechanism and what is actually happening,鈥 said Dr. Raz, who gave up magic in the final years of his scientific training. Now a researcher at 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal, he is one of a small but growing number of brain scientists giving hypnosis serious attention.