ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology2019
Employing pain and mindfulness to understand consciousness: a symbiotic relationship.
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- Mindfulness Meditation and Placebo Modulate Distinct Multivariate Neural Signatures to Reduce Pain.Biological psychiatry · 2025Trial
- The effect of ten versus twenty minutes of mindfulness meditation on state mindfulness and affect.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- The Role of Heart Rate Variability in Mindfulness-Based Pain Relief.The journal of painTrial
- Breath-Counting Task Enhances the Sensitivity of Fear Acquisition.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Consciousness Research Through Pain.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Self-regulated analgesia in males but not females is mediated by endogenous opioids.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Meditation as an Adjunct to the Management of Acute Pain.Current pain and headache reports · 2023Review
- Vaccine hesitancy in patients with COVID-19 who have back pain.Osong public health and research perspectives · 2023Article
- A Brief Mindfulness Intervention for Parents and Children before Pediatric Venipuncture: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Consciousness of Pain: A Thalamocortical Perspective.NeuroSci · 2022Article
- Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a child and parent mindfulness intervention for pediatric venipuncture.Paediatric & neonatal pain · 2021Article
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Abstract
Consciousness, defined here as the quality of awareness of self and the corresponding sensory environment, is considered to be one of most enigmatic and contentious areas of scholarly dissection and investigation. The subjective experience of pain is constructed and modulated by a myriad of sensory, cognitive and affective dimensions. Thus, the study of pain can provide many inroads to a concept like consciousness that the traditional sense modalities do not. Mindfulness defined here as non-reactive awareness of the present moment, can uniquely control and/or modulate particular substrates of conscious experience. Thus, in combination with brain imaging methodologies, we propose that the interactions between pain and mindfulness could serve as a more comprehensive platform to disentangle the biological and psychological substrates of conscious experience. The present review provides a brief synopsis on how combining the study of pain and mindfulness can inform the study of consciousness, delineates the multiple, unique brain mechanisms supporting mindfulness-based pain relief, and describes how mindfulness uniquely improves the affective dimension of pain, an important consideration for the treatment of chronic pain.
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