Repetitive Religious Chanting Invokes Positive Emotional Schema to Counterbalance Fear: A Multi-Modal Functional and Structural MRI Study

Repetitive Religious Chanting Invokes Positive Emotional Schema to Counterbalance Fear: A Multi-Modal Functional and Structural MRI Study

IntroductionDuring hard times, religious chanting/praying is widely practiced to cope with negative or stressful emotions. While the underlying neural mechanism has not been investigated to a sufficient extent. A previous event-related potential study showed that religious chanting could significant...

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Main Authors: Junling Gao, Stavros Skouras, Hang Kin Leung, Bonnie Wai Yan Wu, Huijun Wu, Chunqi Chang, Hin Hung Sik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Subjects:
emotion regulation
religious chanting
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
religious schema
brain asymmetry
amygdala
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.548856/full

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