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Being 'Born-Again' Linked to More Brain Atrophy: Study
philly.com ^
| 2012-03-20
| Mary Elizabeth Dallas
Posted on 03/21/2012 12:16:40 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
WEDNESDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) -- 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.
...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.
...SOURCE: Duke University, news release, May 19, 2011
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
TOPICS: Evangelical Christian; Mainline Protestant; Religion & Science
KEYWORDS: 666; antichristian; bible; bornagain; bornagainchristian; christian; christianpersecution; christians; faith; idiotalert; junkscience; notscience; protestant; scientism; stuckonstupid
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To: F15Eagle
Excellent. Sorry I repeated.
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
SOURCE: Duke University, news release, May 19, 2011 Why is this "news" to philly.com a year later?
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03/21/2012 1:44:42 PM PDT
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JustSayNoToNannies
(A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
To: susannah59; skr
"Psychosocial and demographic covariates were included in these analyses, as well as baseline total cerebral volumes as a proxy for head size. Psychosocial factors assessed included stress (global self-reported stress experienced over the past 6 months), social support (a composite variable, primarily level of satisfaction with personal relationships [55], [56]), and depression status (membership in depressed or non-depressed group). Demographic factors assessed included age, sex, self-reported race (dichotomized as white and non-white), years of education, and duration in the study." -
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0017006
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03/21/2012 1:47:52 PM PDT
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JustSayNoToNannies
(A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
To: aruanan
...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.That was a very tortured sentence. But it was written by a PHD so it's not strange that it's difficult to sort out the intended causal relationships.
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03/21/2012 2:11:35 PM PDT
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TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: newfreep
Shrinkage. It’s a horrible thing.
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03/21/2012 2:21:12 PM PDT
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TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: cloudmountain
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posted on
03/25/2012 2:00:57 AM PDT
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skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: JustSayNoToNannies
Thanks, but I read that section more than once before posting, trying to find something to indicate income, finances, bank account or salary. One could assume that demographics include that automatically, but I do not.
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03/25/2012 2:06:32 AM PDT
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skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
oh look...media and “science” working together to diminish Christianity. What a shock.
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