Meditation practitioners manage to dissociate the experience of pain from the emotional response that usually comes with it (with fMRI at least one (edit: two)

Meditation practitioners manage to dissociate the experience of pain from the emotional response that usually comes with it (with fMRI at least one (edit: two) fMRI study that shows the dissociation as well, in that areas associated with the emotional processing of pain are less turned on by painful stimuli, while the rest of the pain detection areas light up normally). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304395910006147 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304395910... http://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/14/5540.short http://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/14/5540.short