Interesting. I have long said there is something different in their brains.
#religion
https://www.psypost.org/new-study-links-brain-network-damage-to-increased-religious-fundamentalism/
@CinnamonGirlE There's a link between actual clinical schizophrenia and religion, too. It's not well understood.
Brains. They're wild.
@CinnamonGirlE @janallmac “The first group consisted of 106 male Vietnam War veterans who had sustained traumatic brain injuries during combat. These men, now aged between 53 and 75”
The median age of Vietnam vets today in 72y.
War ended in 73.
53y old people where born in 71
Does this mean the study had been going on for 20 years?
@matuzalem @janallmac
It said long term study, but it isn't clear exactly how long it was.
@CinnamonGirlE @matuzalem @janallmac
"Confabulation is the generation of conspicuously false beliefs or memories without the intent to deceive & is strongly associated with cognitive rigidity or perseveration during neuropsychological tasks. [It's] also associated with failure to inhibit or doubt inaccurate memory elements during retrieval. These aspects of confabulation are shared by healthy individuals high in fundamentalism, who also show cognitive rigidity & a reduced likelihood of doubt."
@MLClark @matuzalem @janallmac
Thanks ML!
@CinnamonGirlE @matuzalem @janallmac
I went to the original study, and it seems they drew veteran data from a previous set of research, first published in 2011 and probably itself collected a bit earlier.
Very confusing to the average reader for these authors not to explain that this study made use of earlier brain scans, but it's become common practice to draw on existing neuro-data to create larger sample sets for analysis.
Here's a fun image from the study! Watch out for these lesions!