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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry
  • Phenomenology

Background:

  • Contemporary psychiatry often focuses on neurotransmitter dysregulation and genetic factors in schizophrenia.
  • Neuroscience has largely overlooked the first-person experiential dimension, focusing instead on cognitive functions.
  • An alternative perspective views schizophrenia as a self-disorder involving anomalous self-experience and awareness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore schizophrenia as a self-disorder by integrating phenomenological psychopathology with cognitive neuroscience.
  • To investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of the bodily self and its relation to schizophrenia.
  • To correlate first-person experiences with neurobiological changes in psychiatric diseases.

Main Methods:

  • Review of recent empirical evidence on the neurobiological basis of the minimal self (bodily self).
  • Illustration of the relationship between the body, motor potentialities, and the minimal self.
  • Discussion of neural mechanisms of the bodily self, its plasticity, and self-other distinction in schizophrenia.

Main Results:

  • Evidence suggests anomalies in multisensory integration and processing of self- vs. other-related bodily information.
  • These brain-body function anomalies may underlie the disruption of self-experience in schizophrenia.
  • Blurring of self-other distinction is observed in schizophrenic patients.

Conclusions:

  • Schizophrenia's self-disorders may originate from disruptions in brain-body integration and self-experience.
  • Cognitive neuroscience offers a framework to link subjective experiences with neurobiological mechanisms in schizophrenia.
  • Further research into the bodily self and multisensory processing is crucial for understanding schizophrenia's psychopathology.