Melbourne newspaper “The Age” has this brief article on neuroscientists analyzing what the brain does when an person is altruistic – see Warm as charity: why giving feels good.

Related links:

Books and articles by Antonio Damasio including:

• “Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain” (Antonio Damasio)
• “Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain” (Antonio Damasio)
• “The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience (Theology and the Sciences)” (Eugene G. D’Aquili, Andrew B. Newberg)
• Damasio, Antonio. “Fundamental Feelings.” Nature 413 (2001): 781.

Books and articles by Andrew Newberg

• Metanexus articles by Andrew Newberg
• D’Aquili, Eugene G., and Andrew B. Newberg. “Consciousness and the Machine.” Zygon 31, no. 2 (1996): 235-252.
• D’Aquili, Eugene G., and Andrew B. Newberg. The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999.

Counterbalance: Psychology and Neuroscience