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    Religious and mystical states: A neuropsychological model.Eugene G. D'Aquili & Andrew B. Newberg - 1993 - Zygon 28 (2):177-200.
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    The neuroscientific study of religious and spiritual phenomena: Or why God doesn't use biostatistics.Andrew B. Newberg & Bruce Y. Lee - 2005 - Zygon 40 (2):469-490.
  3. The neuropsychology of religious and spiritual experience.Andrew B. Newberg & Eugene G. D'Aquili - 2000 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 7 (11-12):251-266.
    This paper considers the neuropsychology of religious and spiritual experiences. This requires a review of our current understanding of brain function as well as an integrated synthesis to derive a neuropsychological model of spiritual experiences. Religious and spiritual experiences are highly complex states that likely involve many brain structures including those involved in higher order processing of sensory and cognitive input as well as those involved in the elaboration of emotions and autonomic responses. Such an analysis can help elucidate the (...)
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  4. The Neuropsychological Basis of Religions, or Why God Won't Go Away.Eugene G. D'Aquili & Andrew B. Newberg - 1998 - Zygon 33 (2):187-201.
    By the end of the eighteenth century, the intellectual elite generally believed that religion would soon vanish because of the advent of the Higher Criticism and the scientific method. However, two hundred years later, religions and the concept of God have not gone away and, in many instances, appear to be gaining in strength. This paper considers the neuropsychological basis of religion and religious concepts and tries to develop an understanding of why religion does not go away so easily. In (...)
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    The Near Death Experience as Archetype: A Model for "Prepared" Neurocognitive Processes.Andrew B. Newberg & Eugene G. D'Aquili - 1994 - Anthropology of Consciousness 5 (4):1-15.
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    The Neuropsychology of Aesthetic, Spiritual, and Mystical States.Eugene G. D'Aquili & Andrew B. Newberg - 2000 - Zygon 35 (1):39-51.
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    Cerebral blood flow differences between long-term meditators and non-meditators.Andrew B. Newberg, Nancy Wintering, Mark R. Waldman, Daniel Amen, Dharma S. Khalsa & Abass Alavi - 2010 - Consciousness and Cognition 19 (4):899-905.
    We have studied a number of long-term meditators in previous studies. The purpose of this study was to determine if there are differences in baseline brain function of experienced meditators compared to non-meditators. All subjects were recruited as part of an ongoing study of different meditation practices. We evaluated 12 advanced meditators and 14 non-meditators with cerebral blood flow SPECT imaging at rest. Images were analyzed with both region of interest and statistical parametric mapping. The CBF of long-term meditators was (...)
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  8. Religion and health: A review and critical analysis.Bruce Y. Lee & Andrew B. Newberg - 2005 - Zygon 40 (2):443-468.
    The study of the relationship between religion and health has grown substantially in the past decade. There is little doubt that religion plays an important role in many people's lives and that this has an impact on their health. The question is how researchers and clinicians can best evaluate the available information and how we can improve upon the current findings. In this essay we review the current knowledge regarding religion and health and also critically review issues pertaining to methodology, (...)
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    Identity and the Brain: The Biological Basis of Our Self.Andrew B. Newberg - 2023 - Zygon 58 (1):132-155.
    This article reviews the neuroscientific understanding of the self and personal identity, focusing on various elements of inclusivity and exclusivity as well as engaging religious and spiritual perspectives. We will also consider how the identity is comprised of biological, social, and ideological or spiritual aspects, and how they are interconnected. We will consider how the brain helps us to construct and maintain our representation of the self and what happens when we have self-transcendent experiences. Such an evaluation will have implications (...)
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    Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and Personal Identity: Ethical Considerations.Jonathan Iwry, David B. Yaden & Andrew B. Newberg - 2017 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 11.
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    Putting the Mystical Mind Together.Andrew B. Newberg - 2001 - Zygon 36 (3):501-507.
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    Consciousness and the machine.Eugene G. D'Aquili & Andrew B. Newberg - 1996 - Zygon 31 (2):235-52.
    We consider only the relationship of consciousness to physical reality, whether physical reality is interpreted as the brain, artificial intelligence, or the universe as a whole. The difficulties with starting the analysis with physical reality on the one hand and with consciousness on the other are delineated. We consider how one may derive from the other. Concepts of universal or pure consciousness versus local or ego consciousness are explored with the possibility that consciousness may be physically creative. We examine whether (...)
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  13. Think pieces.Eugene G. D'Aquiu, Andrew B. Newberg, Anna Case-Winters, Norbert M. Samuelson, K. Helmut Reich, Which God, Arthur Peacocke, David A. Pailin & VfTOR Westhelle - forthcoming - Zygon.
  14. The rabbi's brain: an introduction to Jewish neurotheology.Andrew B. Newberg - 2018 - Nashville, Tennessee: Turner Publishing Company. Edited by David Halpern.
    The topic of "Neurotheology" has garnered increasing attention in the academic, religious, scientific, and popular worlds. However, there have been no attempts at exploring more specifically how Jewish religious thought and experience may intersect with neurotheology. The Rabbi's Brain engages this groundbreaking area. Topics included relate to a neurotheological approach to the foundational beliefs that arise from the Torah and associated scriptures, Jewish learning, an exploration of the different elements of Judaism (i.e. Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox), an exploration of specifically (...)
     
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  15. Mystical states and the experience of God: A model of the neuropsychological substrate.Eugene G. D’Aquili & Andrew B. Newberg - 1993 - Zygon 28:177-200.
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    The Creative Brain/The Creative Mind.Andrew B. Newberg & Eugene G. D'Aquili - 2000 - Zygon 35 (1):53-68.
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