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

• Autor principal: Niall W Duncan (auth)
• Otros Autores: Georg Northoff (auth), Pengmin Qin (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Colección: Frontiers Research Topics
• Materias: Neurosciences; disorders of consciousness; Decision Making; fMRI; resting state; cortical midline; mirror neuron; Mental Disorders; EEG; self; Default mode
• Acceso en línea: 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...