ArticleBiological psychology2017
Association of posterior EEG alpha with prioritization of religion or spirituality: A replication and extension at 20-year follow-up.
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- Current Understanding of Religion, Spirituality, and Their Neurobiological Correlates.Harvard review of psychiatryPooled it
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- Predicting Depression Symptoms in Families at Risk for Depression: Interrelations of Posterior EEG Alpha and Religion/Spirituality.Journal of affective disorders · 2020Article
- A Bayesian approach to joint modeling of matrix-valued imaging data and treatment outcome with applications to depression studies.Biometrics · 2020Article
- A Review on Research and Evaluation Methods for Investigating Self-Transcendence.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- Multidimensional understanding of religiosity/spirituality: relationship to major depression and familial risk.Psychological medicine · 2019Article
- Neural Correlates of Personalized Spiritual Experiences.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2019Article
- A diffusion tensor imaging study of brain microstructural changes related to religion and spirituality in families at high risk for depression.Brain and behavior · 2019Article
- Increases in theta CSD power and coherence during a calibrated stop-signal task: implications for goal-conflict processing and the Behavioural Inhibition System.Personality neuroscience · 2019Article
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- Family Risk for Depression and Prioritization of Religion or Spirituality: Early Neurophysiological Modulations of Motivated Attention.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Temporal stability of posterior EEG alpha over twelve years.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2018Article
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- The Role of Religiosity in Families at High Risk for Depression.Ethics, medicine, and public healthArticle
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Abstract
A prior report (Tenke et al., 2013 Biol. Psychol. 94:426-432) found that participants who rated religion or spirituality (R/S) highly important had greater posterior alpha after 10 years compared to those who did not. Participants who subsequently lowered their rating also had prominent alpha, while those who increased their rating did not. Here we report EEG findings 20 years after initial assessment. Clinical evaluations and R/S ratings were obtained from 73 (52 new) participants in a longitudinal study of family risk for depression. Frequency PCA of current source density transformed EEG concisely quantified posterior alpha. Those who initially rated R/S as highly important had greater alpha compared to those who did not, even if their R/S rating later increased. Furthermore, changes in religious denomination were associated with decreased alpha. Results suggest the possibility of a critical stage in the ontogenesis of R/S that is linked to posterior resting alpha.
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