September 29, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Michael Ferguson
Recent advances in human brain imaging are enabling first-of-its-kind insight into complex human behaviors, including religious temperament. Dr. Ferguson describes his cutting-edge work to identify and characterize brain circuits that are causally involved in varieties of religious orientations, including dogmatic and mystical expressions of spirituality and religiosity.
Sponsored by the School of Theology & Ministry
Dr. Michael Ferguson, Instructor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Neurospirituality Research Director at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics