Meditation is a family of mental practices that encompasses a wide array of techniques
employing distinctive mental strategies. We systematically reviewed 78 functional …

Traditionally, studies of how pain and attention modulate one another involved explicit
cognitive-state manipulations. However, emerging evidence suggests that spontaneous …

Buddhist-derived meditation practices are currently being employed as a popular form of
health promotion. While meditation programs draw inspiration from Buddhist textual sources …

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 …

Background Pain is recognised to have both a sensory dimension (intensity) and an
affective dimension (unpleasantness). Pain feels like a single unpleasant bodily experience …

Chronic pain is common, and the available treatments do not provide adequate relief for
most patients. Neuromodulatory interventions that modify brain processes underlying the …

Complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) encompasses both Western-style medicine
and complementary health approaches as a new combined approach to treat a variety of …

Objective. To assess benefits of mindfulness meditation and cognitive behavioral therapy
(CBT)-based intervention for opioid-treated chronic low back pain (CLBP). Design. 26-week …

Mindfulness meditation, a cognitive practice premised on sustaining nonjudgmental
awareness of arising sensory events, reliably attenuates pain. Mindfulness meditation …

Effective, rigorously evaluated nonpharmacological treatments for chronic pain are needed.
This study compared the effectiveness of training in hypnosis (HYP) and mindfulness …