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Summary

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Experience, now updated and expanded in a new edition, updates key topics covered in the first edition including: decentering and self-transformation, supernatural agent cognitions, mystical states, religious language, ritualization and religious group agency. It expands upon the first edition to include major findings on the brain and religious experience over the past decade, focusing on methodology, future thinking and psychedelics. It provides an up-to-date review of brain-based accounts of religious experiences, and systematically examines the rationale for utilizing neuroscience approaches to religion. While it is primarily intended for religious studies scholars, people interested in comparative religion, philosophy of religion, cultural evolution and personal self-transformation will find an account of how such transformation is accomplished within religious contexts.

Introduction

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) presents itself as a highly effective therapeutic approach in various psychiatric conditions, especially affective disorders and catatonia. Although obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is not an established indication for ECT, there are several positive results that have been replicated, giving us an account of its potential applicability.

Objectives

To emphasize the importance of defining predictors of response to ECT in OCD.

Methods

The authors’ clinical experience is combined with the review of clinical cases, available in the literature, related to the application of ECT in OCD.

Results

Personal or family history of affective pathology and obsessions of sexual content were identified as potential predictors of response to ECT in patients with obsessive and compulsive symptoms.

Conclusions

Although preliminary and based solely on case reports, the replicability of results should promote special attention to situations in which OCD is marked by particular characteristics that favor the response to ECT. In this way, it would be possible to prevent the dragged consumption of health resources and minimize the expected chronicity associated with this clinical condition.

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Chapter 5 - Neurology of Religious Experiences

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Predictors of response to electroconvulsive therapy and its importance in the treatment of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

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Chapter 5 - Neurology of Religious Experiences

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Predictors of response to electroconvulsive therapy and its importance in the treatment of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder