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Volume 150, Issue 3 , Pages 382-383 , September 2010

Does meditation training lead to enduring changes in the anticipation and experience of pain?

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PII: S0304-3959(10)00274-5

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.05.004

PAIN
Volume 150, Issue 3 , Pages 382-383 , September 2010