PARMJIT SINGH, PhD

It is rather amusing how proudly people weave phrases such as ‘optimize your potential’, ‘live your life efficiently’, ‘time is money’ into their conversation without a moment of reflecting that this is a language of machines and applying this thinking carte blanc to humans is going to kick up some serious undesirable side effects. ForRead more

There are strong indications that mindfulness-based meditation intervenes in the pain reduction by altering the pain perception (how we perceive and experience the pain). However, it is not clear whether the pain reduction is mediated by endogenous opioids (produced by the body) or it is cognitively managed. A very recent double-blind and randomized study publishedRead more