Regarding the history of hypnosis, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Interest in hypnosis began in the 1700s with Franz Mesmer, whose name gave us the term mesmerize, which
later came to mean "to hypnotize."
b. Mesmer believed that he could cure disease with magnets with his theory being referred to as "animal magnetism."
c. The term hypnosis was later coined by the English surgeon James Braid and is the Greek word for sleep.
d. Current research shows that the EEG patterns recorded during hypnosis are deep sleep patterns consisting of delta waves.
ANSWER: d
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