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Publications

Khatib, L., Glaser‑Reich, J., Mosbey, D., Oliva, V., Riegner, G., Dean, Jon G., Harth, Noriko M., Zeidan, F. (2022) Mindfulness Meditation Training Reduces Aggression and Improves Well‑Being in Highly Stressed Law Enforcement Officers. The Journal of Police & Criminal Psychology.

​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.​

Address

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Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute
9452 Medical Center Dr, La Jolla, CA 92037 
​MC: 0719

Contact

​Email: zeidanpainlab@health.ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 822-4460
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  • Our Team
  • Publications
  • Media
  • Ongoing Research
  • Photos
  • Contact
  • 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)