Religion may affect brain changes

...Take it with a grain of salt. No one in the world of psychology or medicine is going to take notice of this--Plain in simple. Exactly, that pretty much says it all. This was a flawed study undertaken with an agenda in mind. Certain religious folks will like it...scientists will not.

Awfully short article, and leaves unexplained the pat statement that traditional Protestantism is better for your brain than any other religious inclination. Better than No Religion and better than Catholicism. And of course better than Born-Againism. Which says that Catholicism is as bad for your brain as No Religion, and Born-Againism is as bad for your brain as Catholicism, and so on. The article is too short -- so short, in fact, that a TYPO anywhere in it could alter the entire message. I say, DUH. (But maybe it's my hypocampus thingie, all shrunk to a raisin from my belief in the White L... [More]

When I was six, a Southern Baptist preacher told me I was going to hell. I'm pretty sure my hippocampus shriveled at that point, and hence I have avoided all of the religious dogma that I'm capable of avoiding. The mind body connection being what it is, I can see how the endlessly negative milieu of some denominations could literally cause brain component atrophy. Insipient, subtle stress from one's belief system. I would then hold that the opposite might be true as well.

When I was six, a Southern Baptist preacher told me I was going to hell. I'm pretty sure my hippocampus shriveled at that point, and hence I have avoided all of the religious dogma that I'm capable of avoiding. The mind body connection being what it is, I can see how the endlessly negative milieu of some denominations could literally cause brain component atrophy. Insipient, subtle stress from one's belief system. I would then hold that the opposite might be true as well. Good for you, you are well on your way to being cured of "Being Controlled". Couldn't resist this "Non" issue. r

When I was six, a Southern Baptist preacher told me I was going to hell. I'm pretty sure my hippocampus shriveled at that point, and hence I have avoided all of the religious dogma that I'm capable of avoiding. The mind body connection being what it is, I can see how the endlessly negative milieu of some denominations could literally cause brain component atrophy. Insipient, subtle stress from one's belief system. I would then hold that the opposite might be true as well. How then to explain that the Non-Religious fall into the same "Shrunken" catagory?

Nonsense.

Religion does set it's limits to what an individual is willing to accept or care to understand but it is as well capable of enlightening a person on a deeper level that is unlike anything a person with no religious affiliation would be capable of understanding.

Being brainwashed by religion would cause this to happen. Its true.

I see it possible. I always wonder can our mind change things around us. Anyways I think it is auto suggest can change human thnikin and who knows...Research is not done. We will see.

Another reason it should be gone.