March 31, 2026Brick Johnstone, Daniel Cohen, Andrew Dennison
This chapter describes results obtained from our Shirley Ryan AbilityLab/JTF funded study, A Longitudinal fMRI Study of Theistic Relational Processing in Individuals with Neurologic Dysfunction, which demonstrated that spiritual experiences can be conceptualized in terms of neuropsychological processes minimizing the sense of self (i.e., selflessness), and can also lead to experiences of...
Recent neuropaleontological research suggests that the parietal lobe has increased in size as much as the frontal lobes in Homo Sapiens over the past 150,000 years, but has not provided a neuropsychological explanation for the evolution of human socialization or the development of religion. Drawing from several areas of research, (i.e., neurodevelopment, neuropsychology, paleoneurology,...
The objective of this article is to determine the convergent/divergent validity of the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS; Fetzer Institute & National Institute on Aging Working Group 1999) subscales by correlating it with the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) Self-Transcendence subscales (i.e., Mysticism, Transpersonal Identification,...