Dila Ozcelik

Trait Mindfulness Is Associated With Lower Pain Reactivity and Connectivity of the Default Mode Network.

Journal of Pain June 1, 2019 Richard Harrison, Fadel Zeidan, George Kitsaras et al.

Mindfulness-based training reduces pain in clinical and experimental settings. Evidence suggests that these beneficial effects are facilitated via an increased focus on the present moment and a reduced emotional enhancement of pain. Most of the existing literature has focused on mindfulness as a learned skill and on the neural mechanisms that underlie the acquisition of this skill. It is...