Anticipating seizure: Pre-reflective experience at the center of neuro-phenomenology

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 746-764

  Petitmengin, Claire ^a,b   Navarro, Vincent ^c,d   Le Van Quyen, Michel ^d  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS   (France)

^b Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee Ecole Polytechnique   (France)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive therapy of epilepsy; Epileptic seizure anticipation; Explanatory gap; Ictogenesis; Lived experience; Micro genesis; Neuro phenomenology; Phenomenology; Pre reflective experience; Subjective experience; Synchrony analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROIMAGING; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; SEIZURE;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BODY IMAGE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEIZURES; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 34848882774     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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