God is great—for your mental, physical, and spiritual health. Based on new evidence culled from brain-scan studies, a wide-reaching survey of people’s religious and spiritual experiences, and the authors’ analyses of adult drawings of God, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg and therapist Mark Robert Waldman offer the following breakthrough discoveries:

• Not only do prayer and spiritual practice reduce stress, but just twelve minutes of meditation per day may slow down the aging process.

• Contemplating a loving God rather than a punitive God reduces anxiety and depression and increases feelings of security, compassion, and love.

• Fundamentalism, in and of itself, can be personally beneficial, but the prejudice generated by extreme beliefs can permanently damage your brain.

• Intense prayer and meditation permanently change numerous structures and functions in the brain, altering your values and the way you perceive reality.

Both a revelatory work of modern science and a practical guide for readers to enhance their physical and emotional health, How God Changes Your Brain is a first-of-a-kind book about faith that is as credible as it is inspiring.

●安德魯•紐伯格（Andrew Newberg），醫學博士，美國賓夕法尼亞大學靈性與心智中心主任，神經神學創始者，同時也是賓夕法尼亞大學放射學係副教授，主持該係心理與宗教研究。《早安美國》、《夜綫》、探索頻道、英國廣播公司、美國國傢公共電颱與國傢地理頻道均曾製作其作品專題。著作包括《超覺玄秘體驗》（Why God Won't Go Away）、《為什麼你信我不信》（Why We Believe What We Believe）與《生而有信》（Born to Believe）等。

●馬剋•瓦德門（Mark Robert Waldman），賓夕法尼亞大學靈性與心智中心副研究員、治療師，與安德魯•紐伯格閤著《生而有信》（Born to Believe），同時也是《超個人評論》（Transpersonal Review) 的創刊編輯。就有關宗教、神經科學與靈性的課題進行演講, 並從事多個宗教和世俗團體的研究，足跡遍及全美，多達數十傢報章雜誌及電颱聯播節目曾製作其作品專題。