Fadel Zeidan

New laboratory scientist position to study the intersection of meditation, psychedelics, and near death phenomenology. Please share high and wide. Applications are open until position (s) is filled. Reach out for any questions.

Congratulations Greg!

You can still join the 2025 UCSD Pain & Neuroscience Symposium via Zoom (see flyer for registration) Tuesday, November 18, 2025. Times are in PST. Registration ends Monday November 17, 2025 at 5pm PST.

Thanks! I did 🫶🏽

Check out the next installment of Contemplation +! We talked to Fadel Zeidan from the Center of Pain Medicine about the intersections between pain management, neuroscience, & #contemplation. Click the link in our bio to read more.

Webinars - iscrsociety.org

Webinar! Join us Thursday, June 12th Noon EST - Neural & Psychological Mechanisms of #Mindfulness and #Psychedelic Interventions for Pain & Opioid Use Disorders @drericgarland.bsky.social & @fadelzeidan.bsky.social will share new findings #contemplativeresearch #meditation iscrsociety.org/webinars/

Attending #EFIC2025🇫🇷? Interested in interoception and all-things #mind-body? I have the pleasure of presenting with @tanjahechler.bsky.social @fadelzeidan.bsky.social in a session tomorrow afternoon - 2pm in the Auditorium Lumière.

Looking forward to seeing this wonderful pain science community!

We are recruiting individuals who are registered and non-registered organ donors to complete a few surveys. $15 to complete! Scan the flyer !

2025 Conference - iscrsociety.org

Abstract portal is open until April 30th for the 2025 International Symposia for Contemplative Research held in Chapel Hill, NC from November 3 - 6, 2025. iscrsociety.org/2025-confere...

Thank you for these updates- what would you say the take home message is here?

Two more weeks before this position closes. We are recruiting a post-doctoral fellow to study the effects and neurobiology of cannabis on chronic pain.

Depressed sensorimotor peak alpha frequency reliably predicts higher pain sensitivity using machine learned models - super elegant (and painful) design by Seminowicz and Co.

2025 Conference - iscrsociety.org

The 2025 International Society for Contemplative Research meeting will be held November 3 - 6 in Chapel Hill, NC. Abstract portal opens March 10. More details to come. iscrsociety.org/2025-confere...

We are hiring ! We are recruiting a scientist that is interested in studying the brain mechanisms supporting cannabis-based analgesia. Reach out for more details and please share

Self-regulated analgesia in males but not females is mediated by endogenous opioids Abstract. Converging lines of preclinical and clinical research indicate that females, in stark contrast to males, display an increased prevalence of chron

I will be presenting work that will serve as an extension of our latest paper where we discovered that females and males engage distinct endogenous systems to reduce pain academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Heading to my first #ACNP2024 ! Will be sharing the stage with @jmoronconcepcion.bsky.social and @marieeikemo.bsky.social on Sunday 4-4:50pm to discuss Mechanisms Supporting Sex Differences in Opioid Use and Pain: From Preclinical to Clinical Studies.

Co-author of said MVPA signatures, @torwager.bsky.social brought to our attention how these findings also demonstrate that placebo reflects neural granularity from other active techniques - countering the notion that placebo has to reflect some shared mechanism with active treatments

Mindfulness Meditation and Placebo Modulate Distinct Multivariate Neural Signatures to Reduce Pain Rather than a passive reflection of nociception, pain is shaped by the interplay between one’s experiences, current cognitive-affective states, and expectations. The placebo response, a paradoxical ye...

Our study enjoyed a large sample size and combined BOLD and ASL fMRI to find that mindfulness meditation reduces pain through distinct MVPA signatures from placebo cream and a not-so-sham mindfulness meditation condition www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Nice commentary by Luana Colloca on our new paper published in Biological Psychiatry www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Yes please and thank you

Me too - thanks!