RT Article
T1 Judaism, Brain Plasticity and the Making of the Self
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 41
IS 4
SP 311
OP 322
A1 Drubach, Daniel A.
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
YR 2002
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1668944561
AB Modifications of the self, that is to say, transformation of the psychological, physical and spiritual make up of an individual to achieve or approximate an ideal individual is one of the main goals of religion, medicine and psychology. However, these fields approach self-modification from their own perspective, with little intercorrelations between them. This article explores how mechanisms for self modification delineated by Judaic sources are very much in line with new discoveries in neurosciences, especially with recent scientific data indicating that the brain is in a constant state of structural and functional change, a property denominated brain plasticity.
K1 Judaism
K1 brain plasticity
K1 Self
DO 10.1023/A:1021170325701