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An fMRI study measuring analgesia enhanced by religion as a belief system
- Abstract:
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Although religious belief is often claimed to help with physical ailments including pain, it is unclear what psychological and neural mechanisms underlie the influence of religious belief on pain. By analogy to other top-down processes of pain modulation we hypothesized that religious belief helps believers reinterpret the emotional significance of pain, leading to emotional detachment from it. Recent findings on emotion regulation support a role for the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Templeton Foundation
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Pain Journal website
- Volume:
- 139
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 467-476
- Publication date:
- 2009-10-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0304-3959
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- Language:
- English
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- ora:4455
- Deposit date:
- 2010-11-17
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- Elsevier B V
- Copyright date:
- 2009
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