The lost self : pathologies of the brain and identity / edited by Todd E. Feinberg, Julian Paul Keenan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feinberg, Todd E., 1952-

Keenan, Julian Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depersonalization.

Self.

Identity (Psychology).

Cognitive neuroscience.

Brain--physiopathology.

Ego.

Mental Disorders--physiopathology.

Medical Subjects:

Brain--physiopathology.

Ego.

Mental Disorders--physiopathology.

Physical Description:

xi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2005]

Contents:

The self as a problem in philosophy and neurobiology / John R. Searle

The cognitive neuroscience of the self: insights from functional neuroimaging of the normal brain / Seth J. Gillihan and Martha J. Farah

Neural hierarchies and the self / Todd E. Feinberg

The frontal lobes and self-awareness / Donald T. Stuss ... [et al.]

Autobiographical disorders / Esther Fujiwara and Hans J. Markowitsch

Body image and the self / Georg Goldenberg

Right-hemisphere pathology and the self: delusional misidentification and reduplication / Todd E. Feinberg ... [et al.]

The mirror sign delusional misidentification symptom / Karen Spangenberg Postal

Disorders of the self in dementia / William W. Seeley and Bruce L. Miller

Autism - "Autos": literally, a total focus on the self? / Simon Baron-Cohen

Recognizing the sensory consequences of one's own actions and delusions of control / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

The neural correlates of depersonalization: a disorder of self-awareness / Hedy Kober ... [et al.]

The self in dreams / Antti Revonsuo

Psychoactive agents and the self / Roy J. Mathew

Meditation and the self / Hans C. Lou and Troels W. Kjaer

The enduring self: a first-person account of brain insult survival / J. Allan Hobson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195173414

OCLC:

56798793

Publisher Number:

9780195173413