Scientists: Religious Extremism Hurts the Brain

Scientists have recently discovered that damage to a certain part of the brain is linked to the rise of religious fundamentalism. The damage occurs in the early ventroidal framework that reduces cognitive flexibility to challenge our beliefs.

Researchers, led by Yordan Grafman from northwest University, used the data collected by Vietnam War veterans as part of the Vietnam Head Initiatives study. They compared religious fundamentalism levels between 119 people who had brain injuries and 30 others who did not.

The front Cortex of the head can determine how open a person is to diversity, including the echelon of religious thought.

Scientists, however, explain that they do not call religious people mentally ill or that religious faith causes brain injury. But in some people, the “faith-respection system” can be printed because of brain damage.

But according to them, people in fundamentalist groups tend to overestimate their community, reject other beliefs, often combined with the denial of science and violence, Periscope follows.