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A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that specific networks in the brain, when damaged, may influence the likelihood of developing religious fundamentalism.
By analyzing patients with focal brain lesions, researchers found that damage to a particular network of brain regions was associated with higher levels of fundamentalist beliefs.
The researchers wanted to address a critical gap in understanding how brain lesions might affect religious beliefs.
Damage to this brain network does not guarantee that a person will develop fundamentalist beliefs, nor does it imply that individuals with strong religious convictions have brain damage.
Instead, the findings point to the possibility that certain brain networks influence how people process beliefs and how flexible or rigid their thinking becomes, especially in the context of religion.
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