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Religious Chanting and Self-Related Brain Regions: A Multi-Modal Neuroimaging Study
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2024
Here, we present a protocol to investigate the neurophysiological correlates of various meditation forms, including religious chanting. This method uniquely integrates fMRI eigenvector results for region selection in electroencephalogram (EEG) source analysis using k-means clustering. The results provide an in-depth understanding of the neural processes involved in repetitive religious chanting.
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Modulation of the Neurophysiological Response to Fearful and Stressful Stimuli Through Repetitive Religious Chanting
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2021
The present event-related potential (ERP) study provides a unique protocol for investigating how religious chanting can modulate negative emotions. The results demonstrate that the late positive potential (LPP) is a robust neurophysiological response to negative emotional stimuli and can be effectively modulated by repetitive religious chanting.
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Imaging Dpp Release from a Drosophila Wing Disc
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2019
The timing of exposure to ligands may impact their developmental consequences. Here we show how to image release of a Drosophila bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) called Dpp from cells of the wing disc.
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Mass Production of Entomopathogenic Fungi, Metarhizium robertsii and Metarhizium pinghaense, for Commercial Application Against Insect Pests
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2022
Entomopathogenic fungi have gained importance as the biological control agents of agricultural insect pests. In this study, the mass production of a sufficient number of resilient infective propagules of South African isolates of both Metarhizium robertsii and M. pinghaense for commercial application against insect pests was successfully conducted using agricultural grain products.
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Histone Variants at the Centromere
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2020
Histone variants are the histone proteins with structural and sequence variations. These variants may be regarded as “mutant” forms that replace their canonical histone counterparts in the nucleosomes. Specific post-translational modifications on the histone variants enable further chromatin complexity and regulate tissue-specific gene expression. The most common histone variants are from histone H2A, H2B, and linker histone H1 families. However, several variants of histone H3 variants are also...
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Meaning-making can help people interpret uncertainty, stress, illness, or loss within a broader framework of purpose and significance. Trust in sacred realities or a transcendent source of meaning may shape appraisals of difficult events and support coping for some individuals. Psychological research therefore examines faith as one factor associated with adaptation, while recognizing that its effects vary across people and circumstances.
Prayer, meditation, and ritual may reinforce faith-related processes by directing attention, organizing emotional experience, and providing repeated forms of engagement with sacred meaning. These practices can contribute to emotion regulation or coping, especially when connected to a person’s broader beliefs. Their psychological significance depends on how individuals interpret and use them rather than on practice alone.
Participation in religious communities can strengthen social attachment by connecting individuals with shared beliefs, practices, and sources of support. These communal ties may influence identity, coping, and well-being through a sense of belonging and collective meaning. The psychological outcome is not uniformly positive, however, because community experiences can also interact with conflict, exclusion, or personal distress.
Religious faith does not produce identical psychological outcomes because personal beliefs, cultural context, and forms of participation shape how it is experienced. For some people, faith supports resilience, identity, and well-being; for others, it may be associated with conflict or distress. Examining these differences helps psychology avoid treating religious experience as a single, uniform process.
Psychological research considers how personal beliefs, spiritual practices, and participation in religious communities relate to outcomes such as identity, moral reasoning, resilience, and well-being. It also examines responses to uncertainty, illness, and loss. This approach focuses on relationships among faith-related experiences and psychological outcomes, while accounting for individual differences and cultural context rather than assuming one universal effect.
Faith becomes especially relevant when researchers examine how people interpret and respond to illness or loss. Beliefs, prayer, meditation, ritual, and community participation may shape meaning-making, emotional responses, and coping during these experiences. Studies must also allow for distress or conflict, since faith can support adaptation for some individuals while complicating responses for others.
Research may examine identity, moral reasoning, resilience, well-being, emotion regulation, social attachment, and coping with uncertainty or stress. These outcomes connect personal beliefs and communal practices with broader psychological functioning. Studying several outcomes together helps clarify whether faith-related experiences are associated primarily with meaning, relationships, emotional adaptation, or difficulty in a particular individual or cultural setting.