Neuroanatomical correlates of religiosity and spirituality: a study in adults at high and low familial risk for depression.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

We previously reported a 90% decreased risk in major depression, assessed prospectively, in adult offspring of depressed probands who reported that religion or spirituality was highly important to them. Frequency of church attendance was not significantly related to depression risk. Our previous brain imaging findings in adult offspring in these high-risk families also revealed large expanses of cortical thinning across the lateral surface of the right cerebral hemisphere.

Objective

To determine whether high-risk adults who reported high importance of religion or spirituality had thicker cortices than those who reported moderate or low importance of religion or spirituality and whether this effect varied by family risk status.

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SUBMITTER: Miller L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3921896 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature