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How to Link Brain and Experience? Spatiotemporal Psychopathology of the Lived Body
The focus of the present article is on sketching a psychopathology of the body in schizophrenia and linking it to brain activity. This is done providing converging data from psychopathological evidence (phenomenal), phenomenological contructs (trans-phenomenal) and neuroscientific measures (pre-phen...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4849214/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27199695 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00172 |
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description | The focus of the present article is on sketching a psychopathology of the body in schizophrenia and linking it to brain activity. This is done providing converging data from psychopathological evidence (phenomenal), phenomenological contructs (trans-phenomenal) and neuroscientific measures (pre-phenomenal). The phenomenal level is the detailed documentation of the patients’ subjective anomalous experiences. These phenomena are explicit contents in the patients’ field of consciousness. The trans-phenomenal level targets the implicit yet operative matrix that underlies these anomalous subjective experiences. Abnormal phenomena are viewed as expressions of a modification of trans-phenomenal matrix, that is, in terms of an abnormal synthesis or integration through time of intero-, proprio- and extero-ceptive stimuli. Finally, we link the abnormalities of the trans-phenomenal matrix to pre-phenomenal alterations of the brain resting state and of its spatio-temporal organization, as documented by neurobiological methods providing spatial and temporal resolution of intrinsic brain activity (with many features of the resting state remaining yet unclear though). Based on phenomenological research, the body in schizophrenia is typically experienced in an itemized way as an object external to one’s self and unrelated to events in the external world. Based on neurobiological data, we tentatively hypothesize that such anomalies of the lived body are related to decreased integration between intero-, extero- and proprioceptive experiences by the brain’s spontaneous activity and its temporal structure. Taken all together, this suggests that we view abnormalities of bodily experience in terms of their underlying abnormal spatiotemporal features which, as we suppose, can be traced back to the spatiotemporal features of the brain’s spontaneous activity. |
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spelling | pubmed-48492142016-05-19 How to Link Brain and Experience? Spatiotemporal Psychopathology of the Lived Body Northoff, Georg Stanghellini, Giovanni Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience The focus of the present article is on sketching a psychopathology of the body in schizophrenia and linking it to brain activity. This is done providing converging data from psychopathological evidence (phenomenal), phenomenological contructs (trans-phenomenal) and neuroscientific measures (pre-phenomenal). The phenomenal level is the detailed documentation of the patients’ subjective anomalous experiences. These phenomena are explicit contents in the patients’ field of consciousness. The trans-phenomenal level targets the implicit yet operative matrix that underlies these anomalous subjective experiences. Abnormal phenomena are viewed as expressions of a modification of trans-phenomenal matrix, that is, in terms of an abnormal synthesis or integration through time of intero-, proprio- and extero-ceptive stimuli. Finally, we link the abnormalities of the trans-phenomenal matrix to pre-phenomenal alterations of the brain resting state and of its spatio-temporal organization, as documented by neurobiological methods providing spatial and temporal resolution of intrinsic brain activity (with many features of the resting state remaining yet unclear though). Based on phenomenological research, the body in schizophrenia is typically experienced in an itemized way as an object external to one’s self and unrelated to events in the external world. Based on neurobiological data, we tentatively hypothesize that such anomalies of the lived body are related to decreased integration between intero-, extero- and proprioceptive experiences by the brain’s spontaneous activity and its temporal structure. Taken all together, this suggests that we view abnormalities of bodily experience in terms of their underlying abnormal spatiotemporal features which, as we suppose, can be traced back to the spatiotemporal features of the brain’s spontaneous activity. Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4849214/ /pubmed/27199695 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00172 Text en Copyright © 2016 Northoff and Stanghellini. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution and reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Northoff, Georg Stanghellini, Giovanni How to Link Brain and Experience? Spatiotemporal Psychopathology of the Lived Body |
title | How to Link Brain and Experience? Spatiotemporal Psychopathology of the Lived Body |
title_full | How to Link Brain and Experience? Spatiotemporal Psychopathology of the Lived Body |
title_fullStr | How to Link Brain and Experience? Spatiotemporal Psychopathology of the Lived Body |
title_full_unstemmed | How to Link Brain and Experience? Spatiotemporal Psychopathology of the Lived Body |
title_short | How to Link Brain and Experience? Spatiotemporal Psychopathology of the Lived Body |
title_sort | how to link brain and experience? spatiotemporal psychopathology of the lived body |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4849214/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27199695 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00172 |
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