Projects
RCC organizes its work through project-specific teams, methods, timelines, and outputs. Individual projects appear first; broader initiatives that bring together several related projects are grouped below.
A large-scale secondary analysis examining whether religious upbringing, current religiosity, and religious importance are associated with brain morphology and shared neural responses during naturalistic viewing.
View ProjectA secondary analysis testing whether oral psilocybin acutely reduces internal default mode network connectivity, and whether prior mindfulness training moderates that effect. Psilocybin exposure is within-subject; mindfulness training is between-subject.
View ProjectBroader initiatives and research foci that bring together multiple related projects.
A research initiative investigating the phenomenon of faith-based healing.
LeadOgonnaya Uma
Projects within this initiative
A proposed precision-mapping study examining how sustained Christian healing expectation and scriptural prayer relate to within-person changes in brain function and structure among people with Parkinson’s disease.
Developed with a collaborating investigator at Yale School of Medicine.
View Proposed ProjectInterdisciplinary research on anomalous experience and contemporary “high strangeness,” including how unusual events are experienced, interpreted, narrated, and situated within religious and cultural frameworks.
LeadMichael Barros
Projects within this initiative
A computational analysis of Philip K. Dick’s unpublished Exegesis that identifies a clear directional structure across the text. Following a conference presentation, the results are being prepared for publication.
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