Science-based approaches to how meditation works and its effectiveness distinguish between the two types of meditation. First, interoceptive meditation practices involve turning one’s attention inward ...

There is a growing body of research showing that for some patients with chronic pain, mindfulness-based approaches can be an effective tool in the pain management toolbox (e.g. Zeidan, et al., 2010; ...

For many decades, neuroscientists understood the brain as a 'stimulus–response' organ, consisting of individual neurons that lie dormant until stimulated. In this traditional model, learning and ...