A Neural Circuit for Spirituality and Religiosity Derived From Patients With Brain Lesions

• Published in: Biological psychiatry (1969) Vol. 91; no. 4; pp. 380 - 388
• Main Authors: Ferguson, Michael A., Schaper, Frederic L.W.V.J., Cohen, Alexander, Siddiqi, Shan, Merrill, Sarah M., Nielsen, Jared A., Grafman, Jordan, Urgesi, Cosimo, Fabbro, Franco, Fox, Michael D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 15.02.2022
• Subjects: Brain; Humans; Hyper-religiosity; Imaging; Lesion network mapping; Nervous System Diseases; Pain; Periaqueductal gray; Religion; Spirituality; Religion; Hyper-religiosity; Spirituality; Periaqueductal gray; Lesion network mapping; Imaging

Over 80% of the global population consider themselves religious, with even more identifying as spiritual, but the neural substrates of spirituality and religiosity remain unresolved. In two independent brain lesion datasets (N1 = 88; N2 = 105), we applied lesion network mapping to test whether lesio...