Pain Medicine
March 25, 2026
Lorena S Nunes, Angela C. Incollingo Rodriguez, Benjamin C. Nephew et al.
Dear Editor, Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is increasingly prevalent across populations and ages.1 Low back pain is currently the leading cause of disability worldwide.2 Beyond widespread effects on individual functioning and well-being, the financial,3 psychological,4 and social5 implications of cLBP are vast. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is effective in decreasing various pain...
Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging
March 1, 2025
Michael Datko, Jacqueline Lutz, Richa Gawande et al.
1 citation
Behavior change often requires overcoming discomfort or difficult emotions. Emotional dysregulation associated with anxiety or depression may prevent behavior change initiation among people managing chronic illness. Mindfulness training may catalyze chronic disease self-management by reducing experiential avoidance of aversive experiences that act as barriers to change initiation. Using a fMRI...
Global Advances in Integrative Medicine and Health
2024
Angela C. Incollingo Rodriguez, Benjamin C. Nephew, Justin J Polcari et al.
3 citations
Chronic pain is one of the most common drivers of healthcare utilization and a marked domain for health disparities, as African American/Black populations experience high rates of chronic pain. Integrative Medical Group Visits (IMGV) combine mindfulness techniques, evidence-based integrative medicine, and medical group visits. In a parent randomized controlled trial, this approach was tested as...
Journal of the American Heart Association
May 23, 2023
Eric B Loucks, Zev Schuman-Olivier, Frances B Saadeh et al.
Background Hypertension is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Despite availability of effective lifestyle and medication treatments, blood pressure (BP) is poorly controlled in the United States. Mindfulness training may offer a novel approach to improve BP control. The objective was to evaluate the effects of Mindfulness-Based Blood Pressure Reduction (MB-BP) versus enhanced...
Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging
June 30, 2017
Athene K W Lee, David A Gansler, Nanyin Zhang et al.
Mindfulness is paying attention, non-judgmentally, to experience in the moment. Mindfulness training reduces depression and anxiety and influences neural processes in midline self-referential and lateralized somatosensory and executive networks. Although mindfulness benefits emotion regulation, less is known about its relationship to anger and the corresponding neural correlates. This study...
BMJ Open
November 30, 2016
Carl Fulwiler, Julia A Siegel, Jeroan Allison et al.
Obesity is a growing epidemic fuelled by unhealthy behaviours and associated with significant comorbidities and financial costs. While behavioural interventions produce clinically meaningful weight loss, weight loss maintenance is challenging. This may partially be due to failure to target stress and emotional reactivity. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) reduces stress and emotional...
Akshit Soota, Angela C. Incollingo Rodriguez, Benjamin C. Nephew et al.
preprint
ABSTRACT Millions of people each year suffer from chronic low back pain (cLBP), which adversely affects their physical and mental health. While non-pharmacological interventions such as mindfulness are known to be effective in treating cLBP, not all patients experience the same benefit. Determining who these treatments might work best for is difficult, as there are no reliable predictors of the...