Depersonalization: A selective impairment of self-awareness

@article{Sierra2011DepersonalizationAS,
  title={Depersonalization: A selective impairment of self-awareness},
  author={Mauricio Sierra and Anthony S. David},
  journal={Consciousness and Cognition},
  year={2011},
  volume={20},
  pages={99-108}
}

• Mauricio Sierra, Anthony S. David
• Published 2011 in Consciousness and Cognition
• DOI:10.1016/j.concog.2010.10.018

Depersonalization is characterised by a profound disruption of self-awareness mainly characterised by feelings of disembodiment and subjective emotional numbing. It has been proposed that depersonalization is caused by a fronto-limbic (particularly anterior insula) suppressive mechanism--presumably mediated via attention--which manifests subjectively as emotional numbing, and disables the process by which perception and cognition normally become emotionally coloured, giving rise to a subjective… CONTINUE READING

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