Brain mechanisms supporting the modulation of pain by mindfulness meditation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5540-5548

  Zeidan, Fadel ^a   Martucci, Katherine T ^a   Kraft, Robert A ^a   Gordon, Nakia S ^b   Mchaffie, John G ^a   Coghill, Robert C ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN REGION; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; MEDITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; OXYGEN; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955729079     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5791-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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