Carlos Vázquez Olmos

Hyperreligiosity in malignant brain tumors: a case report and accompanying bibliographic review.

Neurocase December 12, 2016 Alberto Carmona-Bayonas, Paula Jiménez-Fonseca, Carlos Vázquez Olmos et al.

Religion is a complex cognitive process with biopsychosocial and cultural dimensions, product of the activation of different circuits of the neocortex. In some cases, religiosity can appear as a pathological correlate in patients with brain lesions in the areas involved. We present the clinical case of a patient with an astrocytoma in the right prefrontal region, with apparent inflammatory...