Comparing the three states of Dhikr, meditation, and thinking about God: an fMRI study
Religion, Brain & Behavior September 14, 2022 M. Saraei, Andrew B. Newberg, Seyed Ruhollah Hosseini et al.
ABSTRACT Objectives: While there are researches on the neural processes of some religious/spiritual practices like mindfulness meditation, no fMRI research on brain functions of mindfulness in Islam is available. Methods: In this study, by using a 3T MRI machine and recruiting 31 (16F) mentally and physically healthy and highly religious individuals, we performed four different tasks during the...