The mindful migraine: does mindfulness-based stress reduction relieve episodic migraine?

Vitaly Napadow^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Management Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States.

Editorial

Vitaly Napadow. Pain. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;161(8):1685-1687.

doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001859.

Vitaly Napadow^{1

2}

¹ Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Management Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States.

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Enhanced mindfulness-based stress reduction in episodic migraine: a randomized clinical trial with magnetic resonance imaging outcomes.
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