Remember when mindfulness seemed like just another wellness fad, somewhere between jade eggs and activated charcoal everything? Well, neuroscientists have news for you – that simple practice of paying ...

When a neuroscientist began studying meditation, she expected to measure temporary mental states—not structural changes in the brain itself. What her team discovered shocked the scientific community.

BLOOM (TAMPA) – Behavioral Scientist Dr. Gino Collura recently joined Gayle Guyardo, host of the global health and wellness show Bloom, to explore the intriguing differences between mindfulness and ...

Life is busy. Parenting, work, hobbies, friends, problems, and pressure fill each day with more items on our to-do list than we can accomplish. Who has time for mindfulness meditation? But as these ...

Brain scans reveal that mindfulness meditation engages different neural pathways compared to placebo, demonstrating that pain relief from mindfulness meditation is not the result of the placebo effect ...

Neurosurgeon Theodore Schwartz still remembers the first time he witnessed brain surgery in person. He was in medical school, and the surgeon sat in a special chair that was designed to hold the arms ...

Pain is a complex, multifaceted experience shaped by various factors beyond physical sensation, such as a person's mindset and their expectations of pain. The placebo effect, the tendency for a person ...

You don’t need a fancy journal or a background in meditation to start being more mindful. What you do need is a little curiosity, a pen, and a few quiet minutes. Mindfulness journaling isn’t a trend ...

These brain scans show different neural signatures associated with pain response: the NAPS (left) is associated with the emotional experience of pain, the SIIPS-1 (center) is related to our ...