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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