Jason Buhle

Let it be: mindful acceptance down-regulates pain and negative emotion.

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience November 1, 2019 Hedy Kober, Jason Buhle, Jochen Weber et al.

Mindfulness training ameliorates clinical and self-report measures of depression and chronic pain, but its use as an emotion regulation strategy-in individuals who do not meditate-remains understudied. As such, whether it (i) down-regulates early affective brain processes or (ii) depends on cognitive control systems remains unclear. We exposed meditation-naïve participants to two kinds of...