A non-elaborative mental stance and decoupling of executive and pain-related cortices predicts low pain sensitivity in Zen meditators

Pain

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 150-156

  Grant, Joshua A ^a,b   Courtemanche, Jérôme ^a,b   Rainville, Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; FMRI; Meditation; Mindfulness; Pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHRONIC PAIN; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; MEDITATION; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; THALAMUS; ZEN MEDITATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 78650418774     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.10.006     Document Type: Article

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