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

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Niall W Duncan (auth)
• مؤلفون آخرون: Georg Northoff (auth), Pengmin Qin (auth)
• التنسيق: الكتروني فصل الكتاب
• اللغة: الإنجليزية
• منشور في: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• سلاسل: Frontiers Research Topics
• الموضوعات: Neurosciences; disorders of consciousness; Decision Making; fMRI; resting state; cortical midline; mirror neuron; Mental Disorders; EEG; self; Default mode
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: 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...