Awareness, desire, and false beliefs: Freud in the light of modern neuropsychology

Cortex

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1083-1090

  Turnbull, Oliver H ^a   Solms, Mark ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR;

AMNESIA; ANOSOGNOSIA; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN DAMAGE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; COGNITION; CONFABULATION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DREAM; DRIVE; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMOTIONALITY; GRANDIOSE DELUSION; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NEGLECT; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOSIS; REM SLEEP; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 35948988828     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70706-8     Document Type: Article

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