Does meditation reduce pain through a unique neural mechanism?

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 36, 2011, Pages 12705-12707

  Salomons, Tim V ^a   Kucyi, Aaron ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CHRONICITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEDITATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROSCIENCE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 80052597682     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2843-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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