The Lost Self (eBook, PDF)

Pathologies of the Brain and Identity
Redaktion: Feinberg, Todd E. M. D.; Keenan, Julian Paul

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Lost Self: Pathologies of the Brain and Identity is an in-depth exploration into one of the most mysterious and controversial topics in neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, and psychology-namely, the search for the biological basis of the self. The Lost Self is a guide to understanding how the brain creates who we are, and what happens when things go wrong.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198038641
• Artikelnr.: 38135114

Autorenporträt

Todd E. Feinberg lebt in New York und ist außerordentlicher Professor für Neurologie und Psychiatrie am Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Außerdem ist er Leiter der Betty and Morton Yarmon Division für neurologische Krankheiten am New Yorker Beth Israel Medical Center.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: The Self as a Problem in Philosophy and Neurobiology
* 3: The Cognitive Neuroscience of the Self: Insights from Functional
Neuroimaging of the Normal Brain
* 4: Neural Hierarchies and the Self
* 5: The Frontal Lobes and Self-Awareness
* 6: Autobiographical Disorders
* 7: Body Image and the Self
* 8: Right Hemisphere Pathology and the Self: Delusional
Misidentification and Reduplication
* 9: The Mirror Sign Delusional Misidentification Symptom
* 10: Disorders of the Self in Dementia
* 11: Autism - 'autos': Literally, a Total Focus on the Self?
* 12: Recognizing the Sensory Consequences of One's own Actions and
Delusions of Control
* 13: The Neurological Correlates of Depersonalization: A Disorder of
Self-Awareness
* 14: The Self in Dreams
* 15: Psychoactive Agents and the Self
* 16: Meditation and the Self
* 17: The Enduring Self: A First Person Account of Brain Insult
Survival