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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: god spot + brain + nuns  Related to the article below (Last Update: 7/8/2008)

Brainy beliefs
The Gazette (Montreal), Canada - Jun 21, 2008
The nun isn't sick. She's "on God." She's a person of faith donating the use of her brain to scientist Andrew Newberg of the University of Pennsylvania. ...

The Age
A tall tale
The Age, Australia - Jun 27, 2008
Another was found brain-dead with a bucket around its head. The children had put petrol in the bucket. By late 2004 Hurley had done two years on Palm Island ...
Commercial show fails to sell itself
Herald.ie, Ireland - Jun 16, 2008
Try as he might, the floundering Carr is simply unable to bring this brain-dead script to life, and not even a random clip of a tortoise mounting a wok can ...

Annapolis Capital
From Annapolis to Africa
Annapolis Capital, MD - Jun 17, 2008
Helping the children who live in and around the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, one of three spots where the silverbacks live, is important to ...

The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
Grand Rapids designer, businessman Bob Israels: Globetrotting homebody
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com, MI - Jun 15, 2008
"I've been given the gift of life by God," Israels says. "Because of that, I have a huge responsibility." Bob Israels loves to talk about when he was a kid. ...
Sylvania entertainer from eastern Kentucky has carved a long ...
Toledo Blade, OH - Jun 16, 2008
He was 17 when one of his sisters left the group, opening a spot for him, and he easily found his place in the unwritten harmonies. ?Somebody would take the ...
Some are born to endless night
Globe and Mail, Canada - Jun 20, 2008
He tried to shock it out of his brain. For a time, Star Trek episodes muffled it. Drugs, at best, only dull it. In nearly every moment of his life, ...
Bleeding Rainbow
indiainteracts.com, India - Jun 15, 2008
The body is waited to reach there from New Delhi AAIMS, where a brain surgery was done to save him as last bid. Whole family is there. I had to go. ...
Television movies for the week of June 22
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Jun 21, 2008
A Reno lounge singer on the run plays nun and shows a San Francisco convent's chorus how to rock. (PG) (1:45) ENC: Mon. 1 PM, 8 PM (CC) ? Sixteen Candles ...
Television movies for the week of June 15
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Jun 14, 2008
A nun helps a double murderer deal with his actions and prepare for his execution in a New Orleans prison. (R) (2:30) USA: Fri. 1 AM (CC) ? Dead Men Walking ...
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Searching for God in the Brain; October/November 2007; Scientific American Mind; by David Biello; 8 … -
SA Mind - Scientific American, 2007 - sciamdigital.com
... imaging (fMRI), Beauregard seeks to pinpoint the brain areas that are active while
the nuns recall the most ... The question: Is there a God spot in the brain? ...
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Searching for God in the Brain
D Biello - Scientific American Mind, 2007 - Scientific American
... of brain regions involved in the nuns? religious experience point to the complexity
of the phenomenon of spiritu- ality. ?There is no single God spot, ...

God -
D Biello - SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, 2007 - sciamdigital.com
... of brain regions involved in the nuns? religious experience point to the complexity
of the phenomenon of spiritu- ality. ?There is no single God spot, ...

[PDF] Book Review -
MR Beauregard - American Journal of Sociology, 1996 - anti-matters.org
... The brain activity of Carmelite nuns was measured while they ... experiences are mediated
by several brain regions and ... meeting.) There is no ?God spot? in the ...
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Keeping media in mind. -
J Cornwell - Brain, 2008 - pt.wkhealth.com
... search engine of a couple of respected broadsheets, the following popped up:
'God-spot researchers see light in MRI study. Brain scans of nuns have revealed ...
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[CITATION] Mysterium Tremendum -
GR Peterson - Zygon, 2002 - Blackwell Synergy
... of others, however, the existence of a God-spot demonstrated the ... it is left un- said)
that brain states are ... a genuine religious experience will have God as its ...

Head Lines -
J Beard, K Mossman, K Kleiner, N Branan, T … - Scientific American Mind, 2006 - Scientific American
... to observe spontaneous revelation, which the nuns believe is ... lobe and several other
brain domains, including ... There is no single God spot.? ? Kaspar Mossman ...

Malicious Mirror
J Beard - sciamdigital.com
... to observe spontaneous revelation, which the nuns believe is ... lobe and several other
brain domains, including ... There is no single God spot.? ? Kaspar Mossman ...

[PDF] Spiritual-Intelligence/-Quotient
V Selman, J Selman, E Selman - cluteinstitute-onlinejournals.com
... the brain--found the ?God module? or ?God spot? in the human brain that generates
the sense/presence, the feeling of God-like experiences ...
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[PDF] What Happens to Religion When It Is Biologized?
N Schneider, W Whitman - rowboat.smallsclone.com
... The idea of a ?God spot? (so-dubbed in the ... system as the ?transmitter to god? (Joseph
2001a ... differences between normal brain states and peak spiritual ...

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Nun Study Counters Notion of 'God Spot' in Brain

 
 

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) -- High-tech MRIs of the brains of a group of nuns suggest there is no single so-called "God spot" in the brain.

Instead, mystical experiences appear to involve a number of brain regions and systems that normally control a variety of functions, including self-consciousness, emotion and body representation, said a Canadian team at the Universite de Montreal.

Their findings were published in the current issue of Neuroscience Letters.

The researchers conducted real-time functional MRI (fMRI) brain scans on 15 cloistered Carmelite nuns, aged 23 to 64. During the brain scan, each nun was asked to relive a mystical experience, rather than to actually attempt to achieve one.

"I was obliged to do it this way, seeing as the nuns are unable to call upon God at will," Dr. Mario Beauregard, of the department of psychology, said in a prepared statement.

The results showed that a dozen different regions of the brain were activated when the nuns relived a mystical experience. The finding contradicts previous research that suggested that a specific brain region may be designed for communication with God.

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The American College of Radiology and Radiological Society of North America have more about fMRI scans of the brain.
 
 
 
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