The mechanism of mindfulness meditation on pain by functional magnetic resonance imaging method

Pain is a subjective feeling having sensory, cognitive and emotional components. Brain regions that cognitively affectively contribute to pain sensation are the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), insula, prefontal (PFC) default mode network (DMN). Depression anxiety may accompany they exaggerate via affective disturbance. As complementary treatment of pain, mindfulness meditation which therapeutic technique be described as “non-judgmental awareness present moment”. Mindfulness aims focus on experiences bodily sensations breathing in non-judgmental accepting manner. The functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) one tools can explain mechanism action intensity, unpleasantness disorders accompanying pain. This study compiles studies examining unpleasantness, depression, with fMRI.