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Le basi neurologiche del concetto di sacro e influenze sulle sue manifestazioni.
2008
Dopo aver riassunto la ricostruzione dell'origine delle idee religiose, aggiungendo alcune considerazioni, accenneremo alle principali linee di ricerca sui neuromodulatori che si ritengono maggiormente implicati nella genesi delle idee e dei comportamenti religiosi ed, infine, riassumeremo i risultati di nostri studi precedenti sui complessi rapporti fra fattori ambientali (in particolare nutritivi), neurobiologici e culturali che hanno caratterizzato le civiltà dell'America precolombiana, in particolare quella azteca.
Theism as a Product of the Human Triune Brain
2018
Religion implies thoughts and behaviors. According to Evolutionary (Darwinian) Psychology, all human behaviors or thoughts are products of neural (or neuroendocrine) functions in conjunction with inputs that trigger these functions: No function, no behavior or thought; no input, no behavior or thought. In this book, the Author searches for the origin of theism (considered a basic feature of religion) in early humans, using data from various sciences, such as neurobiology, ethology,physical anthropology, and cognitive psychology.
Postnatal Neurogenesis and Neuronal Regeneration
2004
The discovery of neurogenesis in the adult brain has challenged one of the central dogmas of neuroscience. Pioneer reports in rodents seed the ground for a detailed description in birds and reptiles, which was finally confirmed in discrete regions of several mammalian species including humans. This neurogenetical capability may serve as the basis for neuronal regeneration, as has already been described in the reptilian brain, and thus may represent a promising therapeutic approach. Consequently, in the last years there has been an important effort to deepen our knowledge of the biology, the functional significance and the regulation of adult neurogenesis.
Triune brain's mechanisms of thought and behavior, death awareness, and origin of religion in early humans.
2008
According to ethological point of view, the most important religious displays consist in the gathering of several human groups who perform repeated and prolonged demonstrations of submission toward dominant individuals. These dominant individuals take different forms in each culture but they share some characteristics including an immense power. For what concerns the genesis, in human mind, of the ideas of such immense power beings, some scholars, as Freud (Totem und tabu, 1913), felt that such beings could be the projection result of the figure of the “primordial horde’s father” in a super- human world. In The Naked Ape (1967), Morris has proposed a sort of biological updating of the Freud…
Evolutionary and neurobiological bases of theism
2009
According to evolutionary psychology, all human behaviours are a product of internal mechanisms in conjunction with inputs that cause activation of those mechanisms: no mechanism, no behaviour; no input, no behaviour. From an ethological point of view, the most important religious behaviours consist in the gathering of humans who perform demonstrations of submission toward supernatural individuals endowed with an immense power. About the genesis of the ideas of such beings, Freud felt that they could be the projection result of the “primordial horde’s father” in a super-human world. Subsequently Morris has proposed that divine beings risult from the projection of the figure of the dominant …