Robert Sapolsky OCD and Religious Ritual

╔═╦╗╔╦╗╔═╦═╦╦╦╦╗╔═╗ ║╚╣║║║╚╣╚╣╔╣╔╣║╚╣═╣ ╠╗║╚╝║║╠╗║╚╣║║║║║═╣ ╚═╩══╩═╩═╩═╩╝╚╩═╩═╝ Prof. Robert Sapolsky Bio 150/250, Spring 2002 Human Behavioral BiologyThe Biology of ReligionI. Obsessive compulsive disordera. Obsessive thoughts: intrusions, blasphemies, and so on.b. Compulsive rituals: self-cleansing, food preparation, leaving and entering, numerology and symmetryc. Genetic, neuroanatomical and neurochemical hints2. Ritualism of the religious orthodoxy3. Hindu Brahmans: hours of daily purification ritua