275. The Disrupted Mind: Noga Arikha on What Happens to Identity When the Brain Is Assaulted by Disease and Injury
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Shermer and Arikha discuss: what it means for a mind to be disrupted \\u2022 dementia, senility, and Alzheimer\\u2019s disease \\u2022 mental illness and the labeling problem \\u2022 the social construction of mental illness \\u2022 neurology and psychiatry \\u2022 agency and volition \\u2022 memory and amnesia \\u2022 autobiographical memory \\u2022 self and embodied self \\u2022 brain modularity \\u2022 brain as a machine \\u2022 emotions and cognition: bodily changes first then the awareness of the emotion \\u2022 conversion disorder/hysteria \\u2022 depression \\u2022 metacognition: thinking about thinking \\u2022 exteroception and interoception.
Noga\\u202fArikha\\u202fis a philosopher and historian of ideas. The author of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours, she is associate fellow of the Warburg Institute and honorary fellow of the Center for the Politics of Feelings, London, and research associate at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. She is based in Florence, Italy.
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