Some health risks of prayer

DystoniaVictim.jpgHe who prays fervently courts danger - neurological danger. [Click on the image to see video.]
This stark fact has only recently been reported to the public, in a study published by five neurologists at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel in Germany. But fear not - the risk for any particular individual is low. In the recorded history of the world, the physicians try to assure us, this is probably the very first case….

So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.