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Mindfulness meditation-related pain relief: Evidence for unique brain mechanisms in the regulation of pain
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The cognitive modulation of pain is influenced by a number of factors ranging from attention, beliefs, conditioning, expectations, mood, and the regulation of emotional responses to noxious sensory events. Recently, mindfulness meditation has been found attenuate pain through some of these mechanisms including enhanced cognitive and emotional control, as well as altering the contextual evaluation of sensory events. This review discusses the brain mechanisms involved in mindfulness meditation-related pain relief across different meditative techniques, expertise and training levels, experimental procedures, and neuroimaging methodologies. Converging lines of neuroimaging evidence reveal that mindfulness meditation-related pain relief is associated with unique appraisal cognitive processes depending on expertise level and meditation tradition. Moreover, it is postulated that mindfulness meditation-related pain relief may share a common final pathway with other cognitive techniques in the modulation of pain.
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“We postulated that mindfulness meditation attenuates pain through engagement of top-down (OFC to thalamus) inhibition of ascending nociceptive information.15, 20, 21, 23”
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“Furthermore, the aforementioned studies employed cross-sectional and/or case control designs, consequently limiting their generalizability because of the wide spectrum of potential between-group differences (e.g., demographics, demand characteristics, and meditative tradition) that may exist.15”
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“Nonspecific and potentially confounding variables, such as conditioning effects, psychosocial contexts, facilitator attention, intervention setting, body posture, and/or demand characteristics associated with the belief that one is practicing meditation,15, 27, 135 could mediate mindfulness meditation–related health improvements.136, 137”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zeidan, F., Grant, J. A., Brown, C. A., McHaffie, J. G., & Coghill, R. C.
- Affiliations
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences (US)
- Max Planck Society (DE)
- Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Zeidan, F.
- Venue
- Neuroscience Letters
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-06
- Volume
- 520
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 165-173
- ISSN
- 0304-3940 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3580050
- OpenAlex
- W2064069127
- Cited by
- 284
- References
- 74
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 25 · 2016: 23 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 26 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 2.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Neuroscience Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS-39426, R01NS039426)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Keywords
- mindfulness meditation, analgesia, pain modulation, cognitive appraisal of pain, neural mechanisms, emotion regulation, attention
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Brain, Humans, Pain, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Meditation, Pain Management, Neuroimaging
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