Why and how is the self related to the brain midline regions?

• Main Author: Niall W Duncan (auth)
• Other Authors: Georg Northoff (auth), Pengmin Qin (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; disorders of consciousness; Decision Making; fMRI; resting state; cortical midline; mirror neuron; Mental Disorders; EEG; self; Default mode
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

What the self is and where it comes from has been one of the great problems of philosophy for thousands of years. As science and medicine have progressed this question has moved to also become a central one in psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience. The advent of in vivo brain imaging has now allo...