European Journal of Pain
April 20, 2020
Jelle Zorn, Oussama Abdoun, Romain Bouet et al.
55 citations
Mindfulness meditation reduces the unpleasantness of pain without lowering its perceived intensity, and this effect is stronger in expert meditators than in novices. In a cross-sectional study, participants practiced Open Monitoring meditation or attentional distraction while receiving thermal pain stimuli of varying duration. Meditation lowered unpleasantness ratings compared to distraction in both groups. Expert meditators reported less pain catastrophizing, showed a greater separation between sensory and affective pain processing during long stimuli, and this uncoupling carried over into the control condition. Higher pain catastrophizing scores predicted weaker sensory-affective uncoupling during long stimuli and higher pain intensity ratings during short stimuli. The findings indicate that mindfulness specifically targets the emotional dimension of pain and that pain catastrophizing interferes with this process.
Journal of sleep research
April 1, 2025
Jean-Baptiste Eichenlaub, Romain Bouet, Mathieu Pinelli et al.
3 citations
Among 1,151 preteens aged about 11, nearly half recalled dreams several times a week or almost every morning. About 52% had nightmares less than once a month or never, and 45% had lucid dreams at the same low frequency. No gender differences appeared in dream habits. Nocturnal awakenings were linked to all dream variables (recall, nightmares, lucid dreams, emotional intensity). Shorter sleep duration and lower sleep efficiency were associated with more frequent nightmares and stronger dream emotions, but not with dream recall or lucid dream frequency; Bayesian analyses supported these null findings.
Scientific Reports
November 2, 2024
Marco Schlosser, Julie Gonneaud, Stefano Poletti et al.
2 citations
Older adults who spent more time practicing meditation perceived greater benefits from an 18-month meditation program. The study involved 90 healthy adults aged 65-84 years who were randomly assigned to either meditation training or a non-native language training. Higher levels of formal practice were associated with higher combined ratings of self- and teacher-perceived responsiveness across measures of connection, emotions, and meta-awareness during sessions and in daily life. Global responsiveness scores were not correlated with actual changes in well-being. The findings suggest that engagement, rather than baseline characteristics like personality or expectancy, predicts perceived response to meditation training.