Reward, salience, and attentional networks are activated by religious experience in devout Mormons.
Social Neuroscience February 1, 2018 Michael A Ferguson, Jared A. Nielsen, Jace B King et al.
High-level cognitive and emotional experience arises from brain activity, but the specific brain substrates for religious and spiritual euphoria remain unclear. We demonstrate using functional magnetic resonance imaging scans in 19 devout Mormons that a recognizable feeling central to their devotional practice was reproducibly associated with activation in nucleus accumbens, ventromedial...