Rewarding prayers

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 443, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 165-168

  Schjødt, Uffe ^a   Stødkilde Jørgensen, Hans ^a   Geertz, Armin W ^a   Roepstorff, Andreas ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Habit forming; Nucleus caudatus; Prayer; Reward

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHRISTIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; REWARD; SECULARISM; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; RELIGION; REWARD; SELF STIMULATION;

EID: 50249175021     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.07.068     Document Type: Article

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