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A new study shows that mindfulness meditation reduces pain more than a placebo

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Summary
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71% Informative

The placebo effect has been shown to engage brain mechanisms that modify beliefs, expectations, and conditioning to reduce a personâs experience of pain.

A new study found that mindfulness meditation evokes pain neural patterns, or signatures, in a way that differs from the placebo effect.

The study was funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health .

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82

Informative language

93

Neutral language

45

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

71

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

long-living

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