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How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist
How God Changes Your Brain Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist
Author: Andrew Newberg M.D., Mark Robert Waldman, Mark Robert Waldman
ISBN-13: 9780345503428
ISBN-10: 0345503422
Publication Date: 3/23/2010
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
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What I liked about this was the authors had plenty of chances to go into "woo" science territory BUT DIDN'T. They remain agnostic on any questions about the reality of God, but stick to their basic theme - actively meditating on God, morality, and the moral social contract that makes humans human is good for the brain in an empirically measurable way.

Subjects who meditate can, in lab settings, focus on tasks better, demonstrate better memory, and have a different neural pattern that (the authors posit) handles stress better.

Really interesting. I wonder if it's good for recovering stroke patients.