Religion and the Brain
gdr at dyslab.bih.harvard.edu
Wed Oct 12 12:10:35 EST 1994
In article <mah1002-121094141112 at mac110.nmus.pwf.cam.ac.uk>,
mah1002 at phx.cam.ac.uk (Mark Hayes) wrote:
> The following is taken from an article on memetics I once FTPed from
> As an aside, there actually seems to be a very small chunk of brain
> tissue that might be called a "religious stabilizing module". In rare cases
> where this area was destroyed, the victims could change what seemed to be
> deeply held religious beliefs several times a week.
You may be thinking of the interictal behavior syndrome associated with
temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Here are some articles that might be
Bear, D. M., Temporal lobe epilepsy-a syndrome of sonsory-limbic
hyperconnection, Cortex, 15 (1979) 357-384.
Geschwind, N., Behavioral change in temporal lobe epilepsy, Arch. Neurol., 34
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