General anaesthesia as fragmentation of selfhood: insights from electroencephalography and neuroimaging
British Journal of Anaesthesia February 4, 2018 Jamie Sleigh, Catherine E. Warnaby, Irene Tracey 35 citations
Selfhood is linked to brain processes that enable the experience of a person as a distinct entity, capable of agency. This framework naturally incorporates a continuum of both non-conscious and conscious self-related information processing, and includes a hierarchy of components, such as awareness of existence (core self), embodied self (sentience), executive self (agency/volition), and various...