Mindfulness, Mechanisms and Meaning: Perspectives from the Cognitive Neuroscience of Addiction.

Psychol Inq

Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina; Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina; Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina.

Published: November 2015

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