• 1: Introduction


• 2: The Self as a Problem in Philosophy and Neurobiology


• 3: The Cognitive Neuroscience of the Self: Insights from Functional Neuroimaging of the Normal Brain


• 4: Neural Hierarchies and the Self


• 5: The Frontal Lobes and Self-Awareness


• 6: Autobiographical Disorders


• 7: Body Image and the Self


• 8: Right Hemisphere Pathology and the Self: Delusional Misidentification and Reduplication


• 9: The Mirror Sign Delusional Misidentification Symptom


• 10: Disorders of the Self in Dementia


• 11: Autism - 'autos': Literally, a Total Focus on the Self?


• 12: Recognizing the Sensory Consequences of One's own Actions and Delusions of Control


• 13: The Neurological Correlates of Depersonalization: A Disorder of Self-Awareness


• 14: The Self in Dreams


• 15: Psychoactive Agents and the Self


• 16: Meditation and the Self


• 17: The Enduring Self: A First Person Account of Brain Insult Survival

The Lost Self: Pathologies of the Brain and Identity is an in-depth exploration into one of the most mysterious and controversial topics in neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, and psychology - namely, the search for the biological basis of the self. The Lost Self is a guide to understanding how the brain creates who we are, and what happens when things go wrong.