Study argues against medicalization for the purpose of prescribing drugs.
Register early and see the speaker list and panel topics so far. But this research shows that one area of the brain controls much of our sense of self, and damage to that area can dramatically change who we are. Miller started investigating the anatomy of the self after noticing that several of his patients with frontotemporal dementia underwent dramatic changes, from changing their political and religious beliefs to changing the clothes they wore and the food they ate. Her preference for fine dining in French restaurants turned into a love of fast food. For the study, researchers examined 72 people with frontotemporal dementia, a rare form of dementia that is often genetic and usually develops in people in their 50s.