The serotonin system and spiritual experiences.

@article{Borg2003TheSS,  title={The serotonin system and spiritual experiences.},  author={Jacqueline Borg and Bengt Andr{\'e}e and Henrik Soderstrom and Lars Farde},  journal={The American journal of psychiatry},  year={2003},  volume={160 11},  pages={          1965-9        },  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:5911066}}
This finding in normal male subjects indicated that the serotonin system may serve as a biological basis for spiritual experiences, and the authors speculated that the several-fold variability in 5-HT(1A) receptor density may explain why people vary greatly in spiritual zeal.

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