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(1/12) New article! I'm very pleased to share our most recent report: A neural circuit for spirituality and religiosity derived from patients with brain lesions. Here is my Twitter summary of our findings...
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(2/12) Over 80% of the global population consider themselves religious or spiritual, but neural substrates remain unresolved. In two independent datasets (N1=88; N2=105), brain lesions associated with spirituality map to a brain circuit centered on the periaqueductal grey.
(3/12) Spirituality (or, more precisely “spiritual acceptance”) is measured by the Temperament and Character Inventory using a series of True or False self-report items. Lesion locations associated with changes in spirituality occur in many different brain locations. 
