A non-elaborative mental stance and decoupling of executive and pain-related cortices predicts low pain sensitivity in Zen meditators.

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Published in Pain on November 04, 2010

Authors

Joshua A Grant1, Jérôme Courtemanche, Pierre Rainville

Author Affiliations

1: Département de Physiologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada. joshua.grant@umontreal.ca

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