Who didn't anticipate?
Older adults who say they've had a life-changing religious experience
are more likely to have a greater decrease in size of the hippocampus,
the part of the brain critical to learning and memory, new research
finds.
According to the study, people who said they were a "born-again"
Protestant or Catholic, or conversely, those who had no religious
affiliation, had more hippocampal shrinkage (or "atrophy") compared to
people who identified themselves as Protestants, but not born-again.
Good luck teaching Tebow to throw.
Rising Hegemon
2 comments:
Atrophy results from disuse. Born-again evangelicals don't need no stinkin' brainpan -- they gots Jeebus.
They don't gots to worry 'bout justice -- they gots Jeebus.
They don't worry 'bout no sinnin' -- they gots Jeebus.
Enough of that and you've got a medial temporal lobe as smooth and shiny as a cue ball. But your basal ganglia hums hymns for you while you sleep.
Hang on, though — what about that part about "those with no religious affiliation"?
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