Why are some people capable of sympathizing with and/or committing acts of political
violence, such as attacks aimed at innocent targets? Attempts to construct terrorist profiles …

One of the world's foremost scholars of evolution tackles one of its essential mysteries: why
we believe. Our species diverged from the great apes six to eight million years ago. Since …

Background Over 80% of the global population consider themselves religious, with even
more identifying as spiritual, but the neural substrates of spirituality and religiosity remain …

Across cultures and throughout history, human beings have reported a variety of spiritual
experiences and the concomitant perceived sense of union that transcends one's ordinary …

Religion's neural underpinnings have long been a topic of speculation and debate, but an
emerging neuroscience of religion is beginning to clarify which regions of the brain integrate …

The role of spirituality in health and disease is a complex and emerging area of research.
Incorporating spirituality into the bio-psycho-social model of health and disease leading to …

Substance use disorders (SUD) are complex biopsychosocial processes involving proximal
risk factors (eg, anxiety, depression, life stressors), a pattern of losing control over substance …

Parental religious beliefs and practices (religiosity) may have profound effects on youth,
especially in neurodevelopmentally complex periods such as adolescence. In n= 5566 …

In this paper, we set an agenda for a psychedelic science of spirituality and religion based
on attachment theory. Attachment theory proposes that people develop internal working …

Not much is known about large-scale brain activation patterns in religious states of mind and
previous studies have not set an emphasis on experience. The present study investigated …