I think therefore I am: Rest-related prefrontal cortex neural activity is involved in generating the sense of self

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages 414-421

  Gruberger, M ^a,b,c   Levkovitz, Y ^a,c   Hendler, T ^b,c   Harel, E V ^a,b   Harari, H ^a   Ben Simon, E ^b,c   Sharon, H ^b,c   Zangen, A ^d  

^a SHALVATA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Deep transcranial magnetic stimulation; Default mode network; Dissociation; H coil; Prefrontal cortex; Rest; Self; Self awareness; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; AWARENESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISSOCIATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REST; SELF CONCEPT; SITUATIONAL SELF AWARENESS SCALE; STATE SCALE OF DISSOCIATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EGO; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AWARENESS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THINKING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924748146     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.02.008     Document Type: Article

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