Is the Capacity for Spirituality Determined by Brain Chemistry?
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Dean H. Hamer has received much criticism for his new book, &quot;The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired Into Our Genes.&quot;. Evangelicals reject the idea that faith might be reduced to chemical reactions in the brain.
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Thought might not be dependent on language, according to new research by UK scientists.
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A visit to church may be good for the soul but not so good for the lungs, a new study shows. Scientists from Maastricht University in The Netherlands found that burning candles and incense in church can release
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Researchers have found a 'bottleneck' in the brain that appears to explain why we struggle to do two things at once.
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A person's optimism in the future seems to be controlled by a small front part of the mid-brain, according to a study that used brain imaging.
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Patients with chronic pain disorders, such as fibromyalgia, appear to have abnormalities in the self-monitoring mechanism that allows the discrimination of internally produced versus externally produced stimuli, new research shows.
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Ten sessions of exercises to boost reasoning skills, memory and mental processing speed staved off mental decline in middle-aged and elderly people in the first definitive study to show that honing intellectual skills can bolster the mind in the same way that physical exercise protects and...
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Well-designed studies suggest several ways to improve the brainâs viability.
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A breakthrough in computer-assisted mind reading brings us closer to predicting criminality. Should the justice system adapt? Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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Scientists believe they have located the part of the brain where dreams are created.
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A visit to church may be good for the soul but not so good for the lungs, a new study shows. Scientists from Maastricht University in the Netherlands found that burning candles and incense in church can release
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Psychologists and neuroscientists have spent several decades producing theoretical models of the mental processes and neural networks that might  be involved in the kaleidoscopic state of psychosis. Largely concerned with simulating the nuts-and-bolts of the mind and brain, these  computer models generate results that tend only to be of interest to researchers and their scientific colleagues. More recently, scientists have decided to harness the power of virtual reality, in an attempt to move beyond the confines of theory, to simulate the experience of psychosis itself.
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A mechanism in the brain may explain why some people cope better than others in the face of adversity.
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Science & environment: Political differences might be explained by a fundamental variation in how our brains are 'wired' to process information, study says.
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Scientists have discovered that the sweetness of revenge may have a neurological basis. A Swiss brain imaging study shows that punishing people when they behave unfairly
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From the New York Times:          Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of  knowledge about the world because it is based on testable  hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term  "doubting Thomas" well illustrates the difference. In science, a  healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion,  having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.              The problem with this neat separation into "non-overlapping  magisteria," as Stephen Jay Gould described science and religion, is  that science has its own faith-based belief system. All science  proceeds on the assumption that nature is ordered in a rational and  intelligible way. You couldn't be a scientist if you thought the  universe was a meaningless jumble of odds and ends haphazardly  juxtaposed. When physicists probe to a deeper level of subatomic  structure, or astronomers extend the reach of their instruments, they  expect to encounter additional elegant mathematical order. And so far  this faith has been justified.            Thus begins an exploration into the controversy around the origins of  our universe's most fundamental laws.
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A brain chemical that stokes hunger for food and fat also triggers thirst for alcohol and may play a role in chronic drinking, according to a study led by Princeton University scientists.