Fadel Zeidan on the neuroscience of mindfulness, and his research on pain, anxiety and psilocybin (#057)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Producer Stuart Volkow interviews Dr. Fadel Zeidan, PhD, the Associate Director for Research at the UCSD Center for Mindfulness and Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at UCSD. He and his laboratory have discovered the neural processes supporting mindfulness meditation and mindfulness-based pain relief. https://www.zeidanlab.com/ https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/fmph/r… Recently, he and his team have demonstrated that mindfulness meditation is mechanistically distinct from and more effective than placebo, distraction, and relaxation. His research is currently funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and has disseminated his findings through traditional media outreach (CNN ; NPR ; Time Magazine , CBS and others), Tedx and recently personally presented his work to His Holiness, the Dalai Lama in Mongolia. In his role at the UCSD Center for Mindfulness, Fadel will focus on expanding his research to focus on working with different patient populations and user-friendly approaches to promote the self-regulation of pain. Fadel is especially excited at examining ways to integrate mindfulness from the lab to the clinic and community. Dr. Fadel is also part of the The Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative (PHRI) at UC San Diego, under the auspices of the Clarke Center, that conducts novel basic and clinical research on the use of psychedelics for the treatment of pain and other health conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:07.0	Welcome everybody to another episode of Into the Impossible from the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human
0:15.6	Imagination at the University of California, San Diego. I'm Stuart Valco. Today we have the pleasure
0:21.0	of talking with Fidel Zadan.
0:25.7	He is the Associate Director for Research
0:27.4	at the Center for Mindfulness
0:28.8	in the Department of Family Medicine
0:30.6	and Public Health at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. And he. and he is a
0:35.0	is a recently tenured associate professor in the Department of
0:38.5	Anesthesiology.
0:40.0	I would like to welcome you to into the impossible.
0:43.2	Thanks Stuart, it's great to be here.
0:45.1	Thanks for having me.
0:46.8	Let's just start at the beginning and just get to know you a little bit.
0:50.8	You're a fairly recent hire here at UCSD and you relocated from Winston,
0:59.6	North Carolina from Wake Forest.
1:00.8	Tell us a little bit about how you got here and your journey.
1:03.4	Yeah, thanks. I'll try to make it brief. So I've, you know, I've always been kind of
1:10.4	of interested in consciousness and psychology and human behavior and you know when
1:17.2	I was getting my bachelor's of science in North Carolina I got a degree in psychology and I was we were this was kind of in the midst of the kind of
1:27.1	ridlin over prescribing phenomenon that was happening right and so every other kid I knew was all you know hopped
1:36.3	up on on redland and Adderall and and so I was really interested from a health psychology perspective to appreciate more non-pharmacological ways for us to feel better right to kind of depend on ourselves
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