• List of Figures


• Preface


• Introduction to Volume II


• Part V Spatiotemporal Continuity and Consciousness


• Chapter 13: Midline regions and 'Stream of Consciousness'


• Chapter 14: Slow cortical potentials and 'width of presence'


• Chapter 15: Temporal nestedness and 'duration bloc'


• Chapter 16: Functional Connectivity and 'Inner space consciousness'


• Chapter 17: Glutamate, GABA, and 'Inner time and space consciousness'


• Part VI Spatiotemporal Unity and Consciousness


• Chapter 18: Resting state and Pre-Phenomenal Unity


• Chapter 19: Gamma and Phenomenal Unity


• Chapter 20: Natural statistics and 'environment-brain unity'


• Chapter 21: Unity and Subjectivity


• Chapter 22: Unity and subjectivity in schizophrenia


• Part VII Spatiotemporal Organisation and Consciousness


• Chapter 23: Resting state and Self-specificity


• Chapter 24: Self-Specificity and Self-perspectival organisation


• Chapter 25: Resting state and pre-intentional organisation


• Chapter 26: Neuro-Phenomenal Evidence - Dreams and Mind wandering


• Chapter 27: Neuro-Psychiatric Evidence - Schizophrenia and Depression


• Part VIII Spatiotemporal Quality and Consciousness


• Chapter 28: Resting state and Qualia


• Chapter 29: Rest-Stimulus interaction and Qualia


• Chapter 30: Neuronal transfer and Qualia


• Chapter 31: Affect and Qualia


• Chapter 32: Body and Qualia


• Epilogue: Keyholes in the brain's door to consciousness


• Appendix: Related Issues


• Appendix to Introduction/Appendix 1: Brain and Consciousness


• Appendix to Part I/Appendix 2: Brain and Time


• Appendix to Part II/Appendix 3: Brain and Unity


• Appendix to Part III/Appendix 4: Brain and Self


• References


• Index

Georg Northoff, holds a rare combination of academic titles: two PhDs and an MD respectively in neuroscience, philosophy, and psychiatry. Northoff is currently Director of the Research Unit for Mind, Brain-Imaging and Neuroethics, Canada Research Chair, and EJLB-Michael Smith Chair for Neuroscience and Mental Health at the Institute of Mental Health Research, University of Ottowa/Canada.

What makes our brain a brain? This is the central question posited in Unlocking the Brain. By providing a fascinating venture into different territories of neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy, the author takes a novel exploration of the brain's resting state in the context of the neural code, and its ability to yield consciousness.