The Role of the Parasympathetic Nervous System in Mindfulness-Based Analgesia

Pain is a multidimensional experience that combines sensory, affective, and cognitive factors, causing its treatment to be extremely complicated and often ineffective. Mindfulness meditation has been shown to be an effective approach to decreasing pain. While these benefits have largely been seen over extensive, eight-week long training regimens, we have repeatedly shown that just three to four days of mindfulness meditation training can significantly reduce pain. Mindfulness-based analgesia after brief mental training is associated with

Grantor dc:publisher

Wake Forest University

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Adler-Neal, Adrienne

• heart rate variability

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/90734

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:wakespace.lib.wfu.edu:10339/90734