Mindfulness meditation, which has been used for centuries for pain management in various cultures, has long been speculated to work by activating processes supporting the placebo response. However, ...

New research has found that mindfulness meditation reduces pain by engaging a distinct brain pathway, separate from the pathway activated by a placebo. The standalone analgesic effect that mindfulness ...

Over the past two decades, the concept of mindfulness has become hugely popular around the world. An increasingly ubiquitous ...

Using an intention to treat (ITT) approach, 124 adult participants who reported experiencing pain that was unrelated to cancer and of at least six months duration were randomly assigned to ...

This year has been so full of stress and anxiety for just about all of us. Concerns about our health, uncertainty about the future, and the feeling of isolation have made so many of us worse for the ...

Woman Meditating by the Lake. Prayer Position. Mindfulness meditation has an actual effect on the brain when it comes to managing pain Meditation engaged with brain regions associated with pain and ...

New research from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine suggests that mindfulness meditation is more than just a placebo when it comes to pain relief. The study, published in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Both a group and self-paced telehealth interventions improved pain-related function in participants. Mindfulness ...

Could om take the edge off of ouch? A new study suggests that mindfulness meditation is an effective strategy for pain relief. The research, published in Biological Psychiatry, analyzed pain ...

Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Center for Healthy Minds has isolated the changes in pain-related brain activity that follow mindfulness training—pointing a way toward more targeted ...

A recent multisite randomized clinical trial appears to offer hope for people with chronic pain, including many older adults. The study, including 811 veterans, tested two mindfulness-based ...

Mindfulness-based interventions delivered via telehealth in a scalable format can improve pain and overall well-being among veterans with chronic pain, according to new research published today in ...