{"id":126996,"date":"2021-08-31T12:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T19:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/mapping-the-brain-circuitry-of-spirituality"},"modified":"2021-08-31T12:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T19:22:18","slug":"mapping-the-brain-circuitry-of-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/mapping-the-brain-circuitry-of-spirituality","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Brain Circuitry of Spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mapping-the-brain-circuitry-of-spirituality2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Researchers find a region of the brain stem called the periaqueductal gray may mediate religiosity and spirituality in humans.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Elsevier.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long suspected that religiosity and spirituality could be mapped to specific brain circuits, but the location of those circuits remains unknown. Now, a new study using novel technology and the human connectome, a map of neural connections, has identified a brain circuit that seems to mediate that aspect of our personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Researchers find a region of the brain stem called the periaqueductal gray may mediate religiosity and spirituality in humans. Source: Elsevier. Scientists have long suspected that religiosity and spirituality could be mapped to specific brain circuits, but the location of those circuits remains unknown. Now, a new study using novel technology and the human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}