Gidon Rosenthal

Finding the self by losing the self: Neural correlates of ego-dissolution under psilocybin

Human Brain Mapping May 22, 2015 Alexander V. Lebedev, Martin Lövdén, Gidon Rosenthal et al. 347 citations

Ego-disturbances have been a topic in schizophrenia research since the earliest clinical descriptions of the disorder. Manifesting as a feeling that one's "self," "ego," or "I" is disintegrating or that the border between one's self and the external world is dissolving, "ego-disintegration" or "dissolution" is also an important feature of the psychedelic experience, such as is produced by...