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The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC)
Announces its 5th Electronic Seminar:
THE HUMAN SELF CONSTRUCT & PREFRONTAL CORTEX IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
March 15 - April 9
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Target Paper now available at: http://www.phil.vt.edu/ASSC/esem
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Seminar Leader:
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Kai Vogeley, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Germany
Panelists:
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Bernard Baars
The Wright Institute
Paul Fletcher Vogt
Brain Research Institute,
Duesseldorf
Joaquin Fuster
Psychiatry, UCLA
Vittorio Gallese
Physiology, Parma
Nicholas Georgieff
Cognitive Science, Lyon
Elkhonon Goldberg
Psychiatry, New York
Anthony Grace
University of Pittsburgh
Nick Humphrey
New School of Social Research
Marc Jeannerod
Cognitive Science, Lyon
Albert Newen
Philosophy, Bonn
Michael Pauen
Wissenschafts-Kolleg Bremen
Doug Watt
Neuropsychology, Quincy Hospital
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Beginning March 15, you can follow THE HUMAN SELF CONSTRUCT & PREFRONTAL
CORTEX IN SCHIZOPHRENIA by subscribing to the ASSC public list:
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SEMINAR SCHEDULE
MARCH 15 - 19 -- Seminar commences, commentaries distributed.
MARCH 22 - APRIL 2 -- Open discussion commences.
APRIL 8 - 12 -- Concluding comments, summaries
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Target Paper ABSTRACT
THE HUMAN SELF CONSTRUCT & PREFRONTAL CORTEX IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
Kai Vogeley, Martin Kurthen, Peter Falkai & Wolfgang Maier Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitdt Bonn The human self construct comprises
essential features such as the experience of ownership, of
body-centered spatial perspectivity, and of a long term unity of
beliefs and attitudes. In the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, it is
suggested that clinical subsyndromes like cognitive disorganization
and derealization reflect disorders of this self model. These features
are neurobiologically instantiated as an episodically active complex of
neural activation patterns, and can be mapped onto the brain given
adequate operationalizations of self model features. In its unique
capability of integrating external and internal data, the prefrontal
cortex (PFC) appears to be an essential component of the neuronal
implementation of the self construct. With close connections to other
unimodal association cortices, and to the limbic system, PFC provides
an internally represented model of the world, and internal milieu of
the organism, both serving world orientation. In schizophrenia, it is
the dysfunction of PFC which our data suggest is the predominate neural
correlate of the different clinical schizophrenic subsyndromes. The
study of the pathophysiological basis of psychiatric disorders is
increasingly contributing to the theoretical debate on the neuronal
basis of the self construct.
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Complete TP available at: http://www.phil.vt.edu/ASSC/
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Kai Vogeley, Ph.D. James Newman, Ph.D.
ASSC E-Seminar Leader ASSC Seminars Coordinator
vogeley at uni-bonn.denewmanjb at worldnet.att.net
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George Buckner http://www.mindspring.com/~metacom
Network Consultant, Lockheed Martin http://www.lmco.com
Associate Editor, PSYCHE http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au
Network Coordinator, ASSC http://www.phil.vt.edu/ASSC
