Fadel Zeidan

Dr. Fadel Zeidan joins us to speak about his research findings about mindfulness, pain, and placebo.

In this second of a two-part series, we continue our discussion of recent findings around placebo effects. Far from being false positives, there is research to suggest that not only are these effects measurably “in your head”, but they employ different neural mechanisms from mindfulness based practices for pain.

Fadel Zeidan is Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy, and Associate Director of Neuroscience at the Wake Forest Center for Integrative Medicine. His programmatic line of research is focused on determining the neural mechanisms that mediate the relationship between self-regulatory practices and health. He is especially interested in determining if and how mindfulness-based mental training regimens affect pain and self-referential processing. He is currently conducting studies to examine the effects of mindfulness meditation on a spectrum of chronic pain outcomes. Dr. Zeidan was awarded the 2014 Mitchell Max Award for Research Excellence by the National Institute of Health for his work on mindfulness meditation and pain.

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• Dr. Fadel Zeidan
• Mindfulness Meditation Trumps Placebo in Pain Reduction
• Mindfulness Meditation-Based Pain Relief Employs Different Neural Mechanisms Than Placebo and Sham Mindfulness Meditation-Induced Analgesia

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