Episode 22: Meditation and Pain

Our guest today is Dr. Fadel Zeidan. Dr. Zeidan is an assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy at Wake Forest School of Medicine and associate director of neuroscience at the Center for Integrative Medicine. His programmatic line of research is focused on determining the neural mechanisms that mediate the relationship between self-regulatory practices and health.  He is especially interested in determining if and how mindfulness-based mental training regimens affect pain and health.  Dr. Zeidan will be discussing the effects of mindfulness meditation on a spectrum of pain outcomes.