Fadel Zeidan on the neuroscience of mindfulness, and his research on pain, anxiety and psilocybin (#057)

  Producer Stuart Volkow interviews Dr. Fadel Zeidan, PhD, the
Associate Director for Research at the UCSD Center for Mindfulness
and Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at UCSD. He and his
laboratory have discovered the neural processes supporting
mindfulness meditation and mindfulness-based pain relief.
https://www.zeidanlab.com/ https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/fmph/r…
Recently, he and his team have demonstrated that mindfulness
meditation is mechanistically distinct from and more effective than
placebo, distraction, and relaxation. His research is currently
funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative
Health and has disseminated his findings through traditional media
outreach (CNN ; NPR ; Time Magazine , CBS and others), Tedx and
recently personally presented his work to His Holiness, the Dalai
Lama in Mongolia. In his role at the UCSD Center for Mindfulness,
Fadel will focus on expanding his research to focus on working with
different patient populations and user-friendly approaches to
promote the self-regulation of pain. Fadel is especially excited at
examining ways to integrate mindfulness from the lab to the clinic
and community. Dr. Fadel is also part of the The Psychedelics and
Health Research Initiative (PHRI) at UC San Diego, under the
auspices of the Clarke Center, that conducts novel basic and
clinical research on the use of psychedelics for the treatment of
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