No God spot in the brain..

whew... I thought something was missing in my brain ;)

The human brain does not contain a single "God spot" responsible for mystical and religious experiences, a new study finds. Instead, the sense of union with God or something greater than the self often described by those who have undergone such experiences involves the recruitment and activation of a variety brain regions normally implicated in different functions such as self-consciousness, emotion and body representation. The finding, detailed in the current issue of Neuroscience Letters, contradicts previous suggestions by other researchers that the there might be a specific region in the brain designed for communication with God.

Uh Oh... it looks like I may have not just one missing brain area, but a whole messed up system ;)

The study found that mystical experiences activate more than a dozen different areas of the brain at once. One of the regions, called the caudate nucleus, has been implicated in positive emotions such as happiness, romantic love and maternal love. The researchers speculate that activation of this brain region during mystical experiences is related to the feelings of joy and unconditional love the nuns described.