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The man who wasn't there : investigations into the strange new science of the self / Anil Ananthaswamy.

by Ananthaswamy, Anil.

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Neuropsychology.

Identity (Psychology)

9780525954194 (hc.)

0525954198 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Man who was not there : investigations into the strange new science of the self

Investigations into the strange new science of the self

viii, 305 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The living dead. Who is the one who says, "I don't exist"? -- The unmaking of your story. Memories, a person, a narrative-- and it's unraveling -- The man who didn't want his leg. Is the feeling that you own your body and its various parts based on reality? -- Tell me I'm here. When your actions don't feel like your own and what it does to the self -- I am as if a dream. The role of emotions in the making of the self -- The self's baby steps. What autism tells us about the developing self -- When you are beside yourself. Out-of-body experiences, doppelgängers, and the minimal self -- Being no one, here and now. Ecstatic epilepsy and the unbounded self -- Epilogue.

"In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, a tour of the latest neuroscience of schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer's disease, ecstatic epilepsy, Cotard's syndrome, out-of-body experiences, and other disorders--revealing the awesome power of the human sense of self from science journalist Anil Ananthaswamy. Venture into the lives of individuals who have lost some part of what we think of as our self, but they then offer remarkable, sometimes heart-wrenching insights into what remains. One man cut off his own leg. Another became one with the universe. Recent research into Alzheimer's illuminates how memory creates your narrative self by using the same part of your brain for your past as for your future. Those afflicted with Cotard's syndrome think they are already dead. Neuroscience has identified specific regions of the brain that, when they misfire, can cause the self to move back and forth between the body and a doppelganger, or to leave the body entirely. So where in the brain is the self actually located? Neuroscientists now see that the elusive sense of self is both everywhere and nowhere in the human brain"--Provided by publisher.

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