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How Does Meditation Pain Relief Work?
Below is a guest post by Lisa May describing her latest paper, “Enhancement of Meditation Analgesia by Opioid Antagonist in Experienced Meditators”, which is now out in Psychosomatic Medicine. ——— People who practice meditation for a long time get pain … Continue reading
Tips for Coaches and Consultants to Help Clients with Goals and Behavior Change
Our new piece in Consulting Psychology Journal approaches goals and behavior change from a coaching perspective. How can coaches and consultants help their clients set better goals and effectively change their behavior? Dr. Berkman wrote a plain language summary on the … Continue reading
Predictive validity of three eating measures
The following is a guest post by Nicole Giuliani. Food researchers (such as myself) study topics such as how often people crave their favorite foods or how well they are able to control those desires. We use a variety of laboratory measurement … Continue reading
Comparison of text messaging and pencil-and-paper for ecological momentary assessment of food craving and intake
It is becoming increasingly common for researchers to use text messaging to measure everyday thoughts, feelings, and behaviors because of its low cost and people’s generally high levels of familiarity and comfort with the technology. Another key advantage of text … Continue reading
New paper from SAN lab members Will and Lauren!
Will and Lauren are authors on a new paper in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience about vmPFC activation during personal relevance and self-similarity judgments. Congrats, Will and Lauren (and Jenn)! Moore, W. E., Merchant, J. S., Kahn, L. … Continue reading
Brain systems for controlling food cravings
Nicole Giuliani writes: Many of us spend a great deal of time and effort managing our temptations to indulge in food we know isn’t good for us. One of the ways that we do this is by thinking differently about … Continue reading
How does “brain training” to build self-control work, and why doesn’t it generalize?
The recent proliferation of commercial “brain-training” services that promise to enhance intelligence and cognitive functioning is understandable: Who wouldn’t want more working memory, attention, and inhibitory control? However, the effectiveness of these services has been questioned, particularly with respect to … Continue reading
How does motivation influence attention? It depends on the context
Rebecca Calcott writes: Motivation is a powerful driving force behind goal pursuit in our daily lives. Two opposing motivational states that underlie much of our behavior are approach, the impulse to move towards, and avoidance, the impulse to move away. … Continue reading
SAN Lab members and collaborators in JNeuro
Some exciting new results from Jenn, Lauren, and Junaid in the Journal of Neuroscience: Longitudinal Change in the Neural Bases of Adolescent Social Self-Evaluations: Effects of Age and Pubertal Development Self-evaluations undergo significant transformation during early adolescence, developing in parallel … Continue reading