Brain and SpineAugust 1, 2025Abdullah Al Awadhi, Daniel Kiss-Bodolay, S. Grannò et al.
Introduction The preservation of the human self—a fundamental yet underexplored aspect of neurosurgical practice—has gained increasing attention in recent years. Research question How can neural correlates of self-consciousness be identified, monitored, and protected during brain tumor surgery, and how might this reshape the concept of “onco-functional balance”? Material and methods This review...
Brain Communications2025Eugénie Cataldo, Eda Tipura, Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua et al.4 citations
Self-awareness can be impaired in different forms, including bodily features, following brain lesions. Such as other complex symptoms, these disorders seem not being localized in one brain area but may occur following the impairment of different parts of a network. One of the most disrupting body awareness disorder for people's functioning is the feeling that one or more body parts do not...
Interoceptive signals, such as the heartbeat, are processed in a network of brain regions including the insular cortex. Recent studies have shown that such signals modulate perceptual and cognitive processing, and that they impact visual awareness. For example, visual stimuli presented synchronously to the heartbeat take longer to enter visual awareness than the same stimuli presented...