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Brain Mechanisms Supporting the Modulation of Pain by Mindfulness Meditation
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The subjective experience of one's environment is constructed by interactions among sensory, cognitive, and affective processes. For centuries, meditation has been thought to influence such processes by enabling a nonevaluative representation of sensory events. To better understand how meditation influences the sensory experience, we used arterial spin labeling functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess the neural mechanisms by which mindfulness meditation influences pain in healthy human participants. After 4 d of mindfulness meditation training, meditating in the presence of noxious stimulation significantly reduced pain unpleasantness by 57% and pain intensity ratings by 40% when compared to rest. A two-factor repeated-measures ANOVA was used to identify interactions between meditation and pain-related brain activation. Meditation reduced pain-related activation of the contralateral primary somatosensory cortex. Multiple regression analysis was used to identify brain regions associated with individual differences in the magnitude of meditation-related pain reductions. Meditation-induced reductions in pain intensity ratings were associated with increased activity in the anterior cingulate cortex and anterior insula, areas involved in the cognitive regulation of nociceptive processing. Reductions in pain unpleasantness ratings were associated with orbitofrontal cortex activation, an area implicated in reframing the contextual evaluation of sensory events. Moreover, reductions in pain unpleasantness also were associated with thalamic deactivation, which may reflect a limbic gating mechanism involved in modifying interactions between afferent input and executive-order brain areas. Together, these data indicate that meditation engages multiple brain mechanisms that alter the construction of the subjectively available pain experience from afferent information.
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“The neural mechanisms of mindfulness-based pain relief have demonstrated that reductions of pain intensity are associated with heightened activity of the anterior cingulate cortex, the anterior insula, and the orbitofrontal cortex, while reductions in pain unpleasantness are associated with attenuated activity of the thalamus.32”
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“Brain imaging has shown that mindfulnessmeditation-related pain reductions are associated with activation of the perigenual ACC, OFC, and anterior insula (Zeidan et al., 2011;Zeidan et al., 2015).”
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“Based on our previous studies (Zeidan et al., 2010a;Zeidan et al., 2011;Zeidan et al., 2015) and sample size determination software (G*power, 3.1), 16 subjects per group were considered sufficient to detect a signifi-cant difference (large effect size ϭ p 2 ϭ.14) between groups on a twosided, 0.05 test of proportions [repeated-measures (RM)”
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“Specifically, mindfulness meditation significantly deactivates the thalamus (Zeidan et al., 2011;Zeidan et al., 2015), potentially reflecting cognitive gating of the transmission of sensory information to the cortex (Zeidan et al., 2011;Zeidan et al., 2012).”
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“In the presence of noxious heat, mindfulness significantly reduced SI activation corresponding to the stimulation site (right leg), suggesting that mindfulness reduces ascending nociceptive inputs to somatosensory cortical regions.”
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“In the presence of noxious heat, mindfulness significantly reduced SI activation corresponding to the stimulation site (right leg), suggesting that mindfulness reduces ascending nociceptive inputs to somatosensory cortical regions.”
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“After training, mindful attention to the breath significantly reduced pain intensity (↓40%) and pain unpleasantness (↓57%) ratings when compared with rest.”
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“Mindfulness meditation produced widespread activation of the (1) ACC extending from the dACC to the perigenual ACC (pgACC), (2) bilateral orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), (3) the primary somatosensory cortices (SI) corresponding to the face region, (4) bilateral ventral striatum, and (5) deactivation of the default mode network.141”
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“demonstrating that mindfulness meditation significantly attenuates pain through multiple, unique mechanisms”
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“Meditation, after the four-session intervention, during noxious heat produced a mean 40% reduction in pain intensity and 57% reduction in pain unpleasantness ratings.”
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“Greater activation of the subgenual ACC (sgACC), OFC, and right anterior insula (Fig. 1) was associated with mindfulness meditation–based analgesia.”
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“Novice meditators recruit higher-order brain regions (OFC, sgACC, anterior insula) to downregulate ascending nociceptive input at the level of the thalamus through shifts in executive attention.21,23”
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“Mindfulness meditation–based pain relief was associated with similar brain activation as in our previous neuroimaging study,21 including greater activation of the OFC, pregenual ACC (pgACC), and right anterior insula.”
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“Furthermore, across almost all mindfulness/pain–focused experiments, the unpleasantness dimension of pain was significantly more attenuated with respect to pain intensity,16–21, 23, 121, 122”
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“Mindfulness training decreases the suffering that accompanies painful stimuli,48,50 an effect that seems in part to be orthogonal to opioid-dependent pain processing.47”
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“These promising results at the end of the proposed mindfulness program may indicate reduced subjective pain and changes in the brain [25-27].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zeidan, F., Martucci, K. T., Kraft, R. A., Gordon, N. S., McHaffie, J. G., & Coghill, R. C.
- Affiliations
- Marquette University (US)
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences (US)
- Corresponding author
- Zeidan, Fadel
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2011-04-06
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 14
- Pages
- 5540-5548
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC3090218
- OpenAlex
- W2151568754
- Cited by
- 640
- References
- 64
- Citations by year
- 2026: 31 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 42 · 2023: 40 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 49 · 2020: 42 · 2019: 46 · 2018: 47 · 2017: 44 · 2016: 41 · 2015: 50 · 2014: 55 · 2013: 35 · 2012: 37
- FWCI
- 47.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- e-Publications@Marquette (Marquette University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wake Forest University
- Mind and Life Institute
- 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, pain modulation, pain unpleasantness, pain intensity, primary somatosensory cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, anterior insula, orbitofrontal cortex, thalamus, arterial spin labeling, individual differences, meditation training
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Analysis of Variance, Attention, Brain, Brain Mapping, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Individuality, Functional Laterality, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Oxygen, Pain, Pain Measurement, Physical Stimulation, Psychophysics, Regression Analysis, Pain Threshold, Meditation, Young Adult, Pain Management
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