The lost self
Subtitle: pathologies of the brain and identity
By: edited by Todd E. Feinberg, Julian Paul Keenan.
Contributors: Feinberg, Todd E.; Keenan, Julian Paul.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780195173413
Subjects: Depersonalization; Self; Identity (Psychology); Cognitive neuroscience
Description: "The Lost Self: Pathologies of the Brain and Identity is an in-depth exploration of one of the most mysterious and controversial topics in neuroscience - namely, the search for the biological basis of the self. The book is a guide to understanding how the brain creates who we are, and what happens when things go wrong. For the first time in a single volume, some of the foremost experts in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, neurology, psychology, and philosophy, join together to explore the neurobiology of the self. This volume will be invaluable to neuroscientists, psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and philosophers of mind, and to their students and trainees."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The self as a problem in philosophy and neurobiology / John R. Searle; title: The cognitive neuroscience of the self: insights from functional neuroimaging of the normal brain / Seth J. Gillihan and Martha J. Farah; title: Neural hierarchies and the self / Todd E. Feinberg; title: The frontal lobes and self-awareness / Donald T. Stuss ... [et al.]; title: Autobiographical disorders / Esther Fujiwara and Hans J. Markowitsch; title: Body image and the self / Georg Goldenberg; title: Right-hemisphere pathology and the self: delusional misidentification and reduplication / Todd E. Feinberg ... [et al.]; title: The mirror sign delusional misidentification symptom / Karen Spangenberg Postal; title: Disorders of the self in dementia / William W. Seeley and Bruce L. Miller; title: Autism - "Autos": literally, a total focus on the self? / Simon Baron-Cohen; title: Recognizing the sensory consequences of one's own actions and delusions of control / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore; title: The neural correlates of depersonalization: a disorder of self-awareness / Hedy Kober ... [et al.]; title: The self in dreams / Antti Revonsuo; title: Psychoactive agents and the self / Roy J. Mathew; title: Meditation and the self / Hans C. Lou and Troels W. Kjaer; title: The enduring self: a first-person account of brain insult survival / J. Allan Hobson.