Journal article
How Spirituality May Mitigate Against Stress and Related Mental Disorders: a Review and Preliminary Neurobiological Evidence
Abstract
Purpose of ReviewThis article aims to review recent research on the relationship between spirituality and stress and how spirituality may protect against stress-related mental disorders. Preliminary data on neural mechanisms by which spirituality may influence stress processing are also presented.Recent FindingsRecent neuroscientific research on stress implicates widespread corticostriatal-limbic neural circuitry that includes the salience and …
Authors
McClintock CH; Worhunsky PD; Balodis IM; Sinha R; Miller L; Potenza MN
Journal
Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 253–262
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2019
DOI
10.1007/s40473-019-00195-0
ISSN
2196-2979