Quite possibly!

Over the many years that MRI's have been around, some people, a very small percentage, have reported see/hearing god.

Experiments have shown that the number of people who react to one is very small, but there. Further looking has brought the thought that believers have a piece of brain that does/does not do /feel something and you are a believer or not. If you have the right neural network, you are open to belief.

Now they used electronic brain wave pattersn plus a GOD HELMUT in experiments to figure this out.

This does not end with that. There are Scientists who developed treatments for depression that involve
Coils kida like those used in a current meter Pick Up (or a metal detector), and they pulse them with very intense fields of magnetism which is helpful. The idea is to try to find a way o/t pills to help people with issues.

On a personal note, years ago I worked with a gent who believed in magnetics as a way to treat backpain. I listened I read, I scoffed.

then a day later I had a cut on a finger. I took two disc magnets maybe 100 gauss each. Place then across my finger over the cut. I thought perhaps the magnets would attract blood to the area, in the capillaries. I taped them onto my gloved hand. few hours later my finger was in way worse pain, so I stopped that. I did not bang it and pain dissipated in 20 minutes or so. I never tried that again.

I do love MRI's so I always say yes, and They did my thigh once, a solid 60 minutes no movement. In a giant magnetic C clamp. It always feels good, no belief boost though.

here is a link for GH

[en.wikipedia.org]

I was thinking of trying to make one, but one needs to know more about what it does, very precisely.

If I did it wrong I could maybe become a Born Again Moron. My old persona might come through and my right hand my try to stab the left side of my brain.

Other experiments seem to nullify the idea.

I say, just smoke weed, or eat the proper catus/mushroom/rye molds

I mean thinking just about the box (rather than out of the box get it?) It wouldn't shock me if devout religious people had a slightly larger cerebellum (also known as the lizard brain) than non religious people

There are I think at least three possibles. One, that yes religion is a purely acquired culturally, two that there is a positive need in some people for religion, which is genetic. But the is also the third possibility that religion is acquired, but that some people lack defenses against it, and those defenses could themselves of course be innate, acquired or a combination of both.

Its a complex can of worms. Personally I tend to be with the, purely acquired culturally, group, because of the observation, that there are so many very different religions offering so many different things, and entered in so many ways, that they could not all be answering to the same hard wired needs, or exploiting the same failings.

Unless those needs/ failings are of course only very simple, such as the hard wired inclination to false positives, which has been much written about, and is worth looking up if you are not familiar with it.

Since believing in Gods is not intuitive, the remaining suppositions are worthless.

Yes - ALL brains are different.

The question is not one of difference, but one of similarity.

Are there specific characteristics that Atheist brains have in common, that indicate those brains are ( a ) closer related to each other than they are (as a group) related to the brains of theists, and ( b ) have demonstrable corellation to perception of reality and critical thinking.

edited to add spaces after I realised that '( b )' WITHOUT the spaces was replaced by a picture of a beer! - >

I had thought that the answer to your question had been found some years ago. It is that the prefrontal cortex of believers' brains was significantly less neurologially active than the brains of sceptics, and that more recent research had come to the same conclusion.

It would seem reasonable from this to call all religious zealots "dumbfucks" (which I often do).

The brains of atheist are bigger lol.