The sensory, associative and limbic neocortical structures play a critical role in sha**
incoming noxious inputs to generate variable pain perceptions. Technological advances in …

Mindfulness meditation is increasingly incorporated into mental health interventions, and
theoretical concepts associated with it have influenced basic research on psychopathology …

Recent research has begun to identify the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial
impact of mindfulness meditation training (MMT) on health and cognition. However, little is …

The high prevalence and societal burden of chronic pain, its undertreatment, and disparities
in its management have contributed to the acknowledgment of chronic pain as a serious …

The novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 that first emerged in Wuhan, China, in Nov-Dec
2019 has already impacted a significant proportion of the world population. Governments of …

How profoundly can humans change their own minds? In this paper we offer a unifying
account of deconstructive meditation under the predictive processing view. We start from …

Studies purporting to show changes in brain structure following the popular, 8-week
mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) course are widely referenced despite major …

The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

Feelings are conscious mental events that represent body states as they undergo
homeostatic regulation. Feelings depend on the interoceptive nervous system (INS), a …

The science of meditation has grown tremendously in the last two decades. Most studies
have focused on evaluating the clinical effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions …