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​Adler-Neal, A.L., Waugh, C.E., Garland, E.L., Shaltout, H.A., Diz, D.I., & Zeidan, F. (2019). The role of heart rate variability in mindfulness-based pain relief. The Journal of Pain, 0:1-18.  

Zeidan, F, Baumgartner, J.N., & Coghill, R.C. (2019). The neural mechanisms of mindfulness-based pain relief: a functional magnetic resonance imaging-based review and primer. Pain Reports, 4: 1-11.   

Adler-Neal, A.L., Emerson, N.M., Farris, S.R., Jung, Y., Coghill, R.C., & Zeidan, F. (2019). Brain moderators supporting the relationship between depressive mood and pain. Pain, 0: 1-8.   

Grant, J. A., & Zeidan, F. (2019). Employing pain and mindfulness to understand consciousness: a symbiotic relationship. Current Opinion in Psychology, 28: 192-197.    

Zeidan, F., Salomons, T., Farris, S.R., Emerson, N.M., Adler-Neal, A., Jung, Y., Coghill, R.C. (2018). Neural mechanisms supporting the relationship between dispositional mindfulness and pain. Pain, 159(12): 2477-
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​Zeidan, F. (2016). No, mindfulness meditation-based analgesia is not mediated by endogenous opioids. The American Journal of Medicine, 129(11), e297. 

Zeidan, F., Emerson, N.M., Farris, S.R., Ray, J. N., Jung, Y., McHaffie, J. G., & Coghill, R. C. (2015). Mindfulness meditation-based pain relief employs different neural mechanisms than placebo and sham mindfulness meditation-induced analgesia. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35(46): 15307–15325.  

Zeidan, F., Lobanov, O. V., Kraft, R.A., & Coghill, R.C. (2015). Brain mechanisms supporting violated expectations of pain. Pain, 156(9): 1772–1785. 

Emerson, N.M., Zeidan, F., Lobanov, O.V., Hadsel, M.S., Martucci, K. T., Quevedo, A., Starr, C., et al. (2014). Pain sensitivity is inversely related to regional grey matter density in the brain. Pain, 155(3), 566–573.  

Lobanov, O.V., Zeidan, F., McHaffie, J.G., Kraft, R.A., & Coghill, R.C. (2013). From cue to meaning: Brain mechanisms supporting the construction of expectations of pain. Pain, 155(1), 129–136. ​​
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​​Zeidan, F. and R. C. Coghill (2013). Functional connections between self-referential thought and chronic pain: a dysfunctional relationship. Pain, 154(1): 3-4. 

Zeidan, F., Johnson, S.K., Gordon, N.S., & Goolkasian, P. (2010a). Effects of brief and non mindfulness meditation on mood and cardiovascular variables. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 16(8):867-873.

​Zeidan, F., Johnson, S.K., Diamond, B.J., David, Z., & Goolkasian, P. (2010c). Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: evidence of brief mental training. Consciousness and Cognition, 19(2):597-605. 
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Zeidan, F., Gordon, N.S., Merchant, J., & Goolkasian, P. (2010b). The effects of brief mindfulness meditation training on experimentally induced pain. The Journal of Pain : Official Journal of the American Pain Society, 11(3):199-209. 
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​May, L.M., Kosek, P., Zeidan, F., & Berkman, E.T. (2018). Enhancement of meditation analgesia by opioid antagonist in experienced meditators. Psychosomatic Medicine. 

Adler-Neal, A.L. & Zeidan, F. (2017). Mindfulness meditation for fibromyalgia: Mechanistic and clinical considerations. Current Rheumatology Reports 19: 59.  
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Zeidan, F., & Vago, D. (2016). Mindfulness meditation–based pain relief: A mechanistic account. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1373(1), 114–127.

Zeidan, F., Adler-Neal, A., Wells, R.W., Stagnate, E., May, L., Eisenach, J.C., McHaffie, J.G., & Coghill, R.C. (2016). Mindfulness-meditation-based pain relief is not mediated by endogenous opioids. The Journal of Neuroscience, 36(11): 3391–3397.  

​Vago, D. R., & Zeidan, F. (2016). The brain on silent: Mind wandering, mindful awareness and states of mental tranquility. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1373: 96–113. 
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​Garland, E.L., Froeliger, B., Zeidan, F., Partin, K., & Howard, M.O. (2013). The downward spiral of chronic pain, prescription opioid misuse, and addiction: cognitive, affective, and neuropsychopharmacologic pathways. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 37(10,2): 2597-2607. 
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Zeidan, F., Grant, J. A., Brown, C. A., McHaffie, J. G., & Coghill, R. C. (2012). Mindfulness meditation-related pain relief: Evidence for unique brain mechanisms in the regulation of pain. Neuroscience Letters, 520(2), 165–173.  

Zeidan, F., Martucci, K.T., Kraft, R.A., McHaffie, J.G., & Coghill, R.C. (2013). Neural correlates of mindfulness meditation-related anxiety relief. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 9(6): 751-759. 

Zeidan, F., Martucci, K. T., Kraft, R. A., Gordon, N. S., McHaffie, J. G., & Coghill, R. C. (2011). Brain mechanisms supporting the modulation of pain by mindfulness meditation. The Journal of Neuroscience : The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 31(14), 5540-5548. 
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Jinich-Diamant, A., Garland, E., Baumgartner, J., Gonzalez, N., Riegner, G., Birenbaum, J., Case, L., & Zeidan, F. (2020). Neurophysiological Mechanisms Supporting Mindfulness Meditation-Based Pain Relief: an Updated Review. Current pain and headache reports, 24(10), 56.

​Wells, R. E., Collier, J., Posey, G., Morgan, A., Auman, T., Strittmatter, B., Magalhaes, R., Adler-Neal, A., McHaffie, J. G., & Zeidan, F. (2020). Attention to breath sensations does not engage endogenous opioids to reduce pain. Pain, 161(8), 1884–1893.
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Zeidan, F., Johnson, S. K., Gordon, N. S., & Goolkasian, P. (2010). Effects of brief and sham mindfulness meditation on mood and cardiovascular variables. Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.), 16(8), 867–873.​
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  • Our Team
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  • Ongoing Research
  • Connect With Us
  • Our Partners
    • Center for Medical Cannabis Research (CMCR)
    • Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative (PHRI)
    • Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion
    • UCSD Center for Mindfulness (CFM)
    • International Society for Contemplative Research (ISCR)