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Meditation experience predicts less negative appraisal of pain: Electrophysiological evidence for the involvement of anticipatory neural responses

Received 7 August 2009 ,Revised 31 March 2010 ,Accepted 13 April 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.04.017

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