Spirituality as a Therapeutic Approach for Severe Mental Illness: Insights from Neural Networks
Religions April 16, 2024 Henderikus Knegtering, Richard Bruggeman, S. K. Spoelstra 10 citations
Spirituality and religiosity can influence mental health treatment, and neuroimaging advances, particularly studies of the brain's default mode network (DMN), offer insight into this link. The DMN is involved in cognitive and emotional processes, and its alterations may help explain how spirituality affects mental disorders. The article discusses spiritual and non-spiritual meditation, as well as psychedelic-induced spiritual experiences in psychiatry and their associated brain networks, to highlight both the potential and the limitations of incorporating spirituality into psychiatric care.