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Dean JG, Hurwitz E, Furnish T, Castellanos J, McKinty A, Farrell B, Barrows D, Peck SK, Trim J, Samadhi E, Renwick G, Mudge R, Vieten C, Cuccurazzu B, Coleman P, Lin A, Geyer MA, Zeidan F, Halberstadt AL.Feasibility and Tolerability of Psilocybin for Phantom Limb Pain. J Pain. 2026 Aug 7:106404. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2026.106404. PMID: 42567236. Online ahead of print.
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Malaktaris A, Afari N, Casmar P, Herbert MS, Raver R, Kangas J, Liu L, Zeidan F, Lang AJ. Efficacy of Cognitively-based compassion training for Veterans with chronic pain with psychological Comorbidity: Protocol for a randomized clinical trial. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2026;51:101646. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2026.101646. Epub 2026 May 7. PMID: 42179864; PMCID: PMC13195277.
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Zeidan F, Stern JD, Mobley WC. Harnessing the neurobiology of empathy and compassion to alleviate burnout in neurology. Ann Neurol. 2026;99(1):35–48. doi: 10.1002/ana.78094. Epub 2025 Nov 26. PMID: 41305930; PMCID: PMC12946614.

Amorim AB, Gianola M, Barrows D, Zeidan F. Mindfulness meditation reduces pain more effectively than slow-breathing meditation: the mediating role of respiration. Pain. 2026;167(3):678–690. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003832. Epub 2025 Oct 20. PMID: 41114675.

Dean JG, Allen A, Barrows D, Birenbaum J, Castellanos J, Chakravarthy K, Chen C, Cruanes GF, Dhillon S, Esshaki Y, Fuentes R, Furnish T, Gianola M, Jacobson A, Kim HC, Khatib L, Liu T, Lopez C, Miller J, Mosbey D, Oliva V, Patterson M, Riegner G, Wallace M, Zeidan F. Brain mechanisms supporting mindfulness-based chronic pain relief: a randomized, sham-mindfulness meditation controlled mechanistic clinical trial protocol. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2026;52:101665. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2026.101665. Epub 2026 Jun 27. PMID: 42436822; PMCID: PMC13355023.
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Dean JG, Reyes M, Oliva V, Khatib L, Riegner G, Gonzalez N, Posey G, Collier J, Birenbaum J, Chakravarthy K, Wells RE, Goodin B, Fillingim R, Zeidan F. Self-regulated analgesia in males but not females is mediated by endogenous opioids. PNAS Nexus. 2024;3(10):pgae453. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae453. PMID: 39430222; PMCID: PMC11489871. 

Riegner G, Dean J, Wager TD, Zeidan F. Mindfulness meditation and placebo modulate distinct multivariate neural signatures to reduce pain. Biol Psychiatry. 2025;97(1):81–88. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.08.023. Epub 2024 Aug 30. PMID: 39216636; PMCID: PMC11608143. 

Oliva V, Riegner G, Dean J, Khatib LA, Allen A, Barrows D, Chen C, Fuentes R, Jacobson A, Lopez C, Mosbey D, Reyes M, Ross J, Uvarova A, Liu T, Mobley W, Zeidan F. I feel your pain: higher empathy is associated with higher posterior default mode network activity. Pain. 2025;166(4):e60–e67. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003434. Epub 2024 Oct 1. PMID: 39661395. 
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Khatib L, Dean JG, Oliva V, Riegner G, Gonzalez NE, Birenbaum J, Cruanes GF, Miller J, Patterson M, Kim HC, Chakravarthy K, Zeidan F. The role of endogenous opioids in mindfulness and sham mindfulness-meditation for the direct alleviation of evoked chronic low back pain: a randomized clinical trial. Neuropsychopharmacology.2024;49(7):1069–1077. doi: 10.1038/s41386-023-01766-2. Epub 2023 Nov 20. PMID: 37985872; PMCID: PMC11109232.

Finan PH, Hunt C, Keaser ML, Smith K, Lerman S, Bingham CO, Barrett F, Garland EL, Zeidan F, Seminowicz DA. Effects of Savoring Meditation on Positive Emotions and Pain-Related Brain Function: A Mechanistic Randomized Controlled Trial in People With Rheumatoid Arthritis. J Pain. 2024;25(7):104478. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2024.01.343. Epub 2024 Jan 18. PMID: 38244899. 

Riegner G, Posey G, Oliva V, Jung Y, Mobley W, Zeidan F. Disentangling self from pain: mindfulness meditation-induced pain relief is driven by thalamic-default mode network decoupling. Pain. 2023;164(2):280–291. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002731. Epub 2022 Jul 7. PMID: 36095039; PMCID: PMC9823141.

Khatib L, Riegner G, Dean JG, Oliva V, Cruanes G, Mulligan BA, Zeidan F. The Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Trauma in Victims of Gun Violence: a Pilot Study. Mindfulness (N Y). 2022;13(4):1032–1041. doi: 10.1007/s12671-022-01858-y. Epub 2022 Mar 22. PMID: 35341090; PMCID: PMC8938160.

​Khatib L, Glaser-Reich J, Mosbey D, Oliva V, Riegner G, Dean JG, Harth NM, Zeidan F. Mindfulness Meditation Training Reduces Aggression and Improves Well-Being in Highly Stressed Law Enforcement Officers. J Police Crim Psychol. 2022;37(4):972–983. doi: 10.1007/s11896-022-09554-2.

Case L, Adler-Neal AL, Wells RE, Zeidan F. The Role of Expectations and Endogenous Opioids in Mindfulness-Based Relief of Experimentally Induced Acute Pain. Psychosom Med. 2021;83(6):549–556. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000908. PMID: 33480666; PMCID: PMC8415135.

Jinich-Diamant A, Garland EL, Baumgartner J, Gonzalez N, Riegner G, Birenbaum J, Case L, Zeidan F.Neurophysiological Mechanisms Supporting Mindfulness Meditation-Based Pain Relief: an Updated Review. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2020;24(10):56. doi: 10.1007/s11916-020-00890-8. Epub 2020 Aug 17. PMID: 32803491.

​Wells RE, Collier J, Posey G, Morgan A, Auman T, Strittmatter B, Magalhaes R, Adler-Neal A, McHaffie JG, Zeidan F. Attention to breath sensations does not engage endogenous opioids to reduce pain. Pain. 2020;161(8):1884–1893. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001865. Epub 2020 Mar 9. PMID: 32701847; PMCID: PMC7483215. 
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Adler-Neal AL, Waugh CE, Garland EL, Shaltout HA, Diz DI, Zeidan F. The role of heart rate variability in mindfulness-based pain relief. J Pain. 2020;21(3-4):306–323. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2019.07.003. Epub 2019 Aug 1. PMID: 31377215; PMCID: PMC6994350.

Zeidan F, Baumgartner JN, Coghill RC. The neural mechanisms of mindfulness-based pain relief: a functional magnetic resonance imaging-based review and primer. Pain Rep. 2019;4(4):e759. doi: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000759. Epub 2019 Aug 7. PMID: 31579851; PMCID: PMC6728003.

Adler-Neal AL, Emerson NM, Farris SR, Jung Y, Coghill RC, Zeidan F. Brain moderators supporting the relationship between depressive mood and pain. Pain. 2019;160(9):2028–2035. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001595. PMID: 31095097; PMCID: PMC6699932. 

Grant JA, Zeidan F. Employing pain and mindfulness to understand consciousness: a symbiotic relationship. Curr Opin Psychol. 2019;28:192–197. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.12.025. Epub 2019 Jan 9. PMID: 30776682; PMCID: PMC6616002.​
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Zeidan F, Salomons T, Farris SR, Emerson NM, Adler-Neal A, Jung Y, Coghill RC. Neural mechanisms supporting the relationship between dispositional mindfulness and pain. Pain. 2018;159(12):2477–2485. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001344. PMID: 30015711; PMCID: PMC6237620.

​May LM, Kosek P, Zeidan F, Berkman ET. Enhancement of meditation analgesia by opioid antagonist in experienced meditators. Psychosom Med. 2018;80(9):807–813. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000580. PMID: 29595707; PMCID: PMC6162167. 

Adler-Neal AL, Zeidan F. Mindfulness meditation for fibromyalgia: mechanistic and clinical considerations. Curr Rheumatol Rep. 2017;19(9):59. doi: 10.1007/s11926-017-0686-0. PMID: 28752493; PMCID: PMC5693231.
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Zeidan F, Vago DR. Mindfulness meditation–based pain relief: a mechanistic account. Ann N Y Acad Sci.2016;1373(1):114–127. doi: 10.1111/nyas.13153. PMID: 27398643; PMCID: PMC4941786.

Zeidan F, Adler-Neal AL, Wells RE, Stagnaro E, May LM, Eisenach JC, McHaffie JG, Coghill RC. Mindfulness-meditation-based pain relief is not mediated by endogenous opioids. J Neurosci. 2016;36(11):3391–3397. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4328-15.2016. PMID: 26985045; PMCID: PMC4792946.​

Vago DR, Zeidan F. The brain on silent: mind wandering, mindful awareness, and states of mental tranquility. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2016;1373(1):96–113. doi: 10.1111/nyas.13171. PMID: 27398642; PMCID: PMC5866730.
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Zeidan F. No, mindfulness meditation-based analgesia is not mediated by endogenous opioids. Am J Med.2016;129(11):e297. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.04.027. PMID: 27770844; PMCID: PMC5505568.​

Zeidan F, Emerson NM, Farris SR, Ray JN, Jung Y, McHaffie JG, Coghill RC. Mindfulness meditation-based pain relief employs different neural mechanisms than placebo and sham mindfulness meditation-induced analgesia. J Neurosci.2015;35(46):15307–15325. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2542-15.2015. PMID: 26586819; PMCID: PMC4649004.

Zeidan F, Lobanov OV, Kraft RA, Coghill RC. Brain mechanisms supporting violated expectations of pain. Pain.2015;156(9):1772–1785. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000231. PMID: 26083664; PMCID: PMC4545679.

Emerson NM, Zeidan F, Lobanov OV, Hadsel MS, Martucci KT, Quevedo AS, Starr CJ, Nahman-Averbuch H, Weissman-Fogel I, Granovsky Y, Yarnitsky D, Coghill RC. Pain sensitivity is inversely related to regional grey matter density in the brain. Pain. 2014;155(3):566–573. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2013.12.004. Epub 2013 Dec 11. PMID: 24333778; PMCID: PMC3944887.

Garland EL, Froeliger B, Zeidan F, Partin K, Howard MO. The downward spiral of chronic pain, prescription opioid misuse, and addiction: cognitive, affective, and neuropsychopharmacologic pathways. Neurosci Biobehav Rev.2013;37(10 Pt 2):2597–2607. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.08.006. Epub 2013 Aug 14. PMID: 23988582; PMCID: PMC3967721.

Zeidan F, Martucci KT, Kraft RA, McHaffie JG, Coghill RC. Neural correlates of mindfulness meditation-related anxiety relief. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2014;9(6):751–759. doi: 10.1093/scan/nst041. Epub 2013 Apr 22. PMID: 23615765; PMCID: PMC4040088.

Zeidan F, Coghill RC. Functional connections between self-referential thought and chronic pain: a dysfunctional relationship. Pain. 2013;154(1):3–4. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.09.009. Epub 2012 Oct 12. PMID: 23059060.

Lobanov OV, Zeidan F, McHaffie JG, Kraft RA, Coghill RC. From cue to meaning: brain mechanisms supporting the construction of expectations of pain. Pain. 2014;155(1):129–136. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2013.09.014. Epub 2013 Sep 17. PMID: 24055334; PMCID: PMC3947355. 

Zeidan F, Grant JA, Brown CA, McHaffie JG, Coghill RC. Mindfulness meditation-related pain relief: evidence for unique brain mechanisms in the regulation of pain. Neurosci Lett. 2012;520(2):165–173. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.03.082. Epub 2012 Apr 6. PMID: 22487846; PMCID: PMC3580050. 
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Zeidan F, Martucci KT, Kraft RA, Gordon NS, McHaffie JG, Coghill RC. Brain mechanisms supporting the modulation of pain by mindfulness meditation. J Neurosci. 2011;31(14):5540–5548. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5791-10.2011. PMID: 21471390; PMCID: PMC3090218.​

Zeidan F, Johnson SK, Gordon NS, Goolkasian P. Effects of brief and sham mindfulness meditation on mood and cardiovascular variables. J Altern Complement Med. 2010;16(8):867–873. doi: 10.1089/acm.2009.0321. PMID: 20666590.

Zeidan F, Johnson SK, Diamond BJ, David Z, Goolkasian P. Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: evidence of brief mental training. Conscious Cogn. 2010;19(2):597–605. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.03.014. Epub 2010 Apr 2. PMID: 20363650.

Zeidan F, Gordon NS, Merchant J, Goolkasian P. The effects of brief mindfulness meditation training on experimentally induced pain. J Pain. 2010;11(3):199–209. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2009.07.015. Epub 2009 Nov 10. PMID: 19853530.