I, I and I

2001/05/09 Carton Virto, Eider - Elhuyar Zientzia

• Anatomia/Fisiologia
• Osasuna

To this controversial conclusion came neurologist Bruce Miller while researching Pick's evil. Pick disease is a slow degenerative brain disease that gradually gets worse and deadly. It is somewhat similar to Alzheimer's disease. It affects one in 100,000 people on average and is more common among women. It usually appears at age 40-60. Fundamental personality changes occur only in some patients and occur in the initial phase of the disease. Miller investigated 72 patients and only six of them underwent significant personality changes. All had the same space as the frontal lobe and, on the basis of this, Miller has concluded that this space deals with one's identity and self. In fact, the remaining 65 patients did not undergo any personality changes and only one of them had this area of the frontal lobe very damaged.

The research has been made known at the meeting of the American Academy of Neurology and, although the conclusions can be debatable, the cases described there are certainly surprising. A 54-year-old American conservative, a supporter of Republicans throughout her life, for example, has joined a radical group of animal defense since the beginning of the disease and has stopped dressing in expensive and classic clothes wearing cheap t-shirts and pants of any kind. He now proclaims that Republicans should be expelled from Earth.

Bruce Miller has stated that placing the self in such a specific area of the brain is not strange, that it is not a philosopher and that for him we are the sum of our neural links is a very common idea. Based on research, Miller has stated that the proper functioning of the right front lobe is essential to preserve one's conscience and has focused the debate in another area. How do so many concepts related to self alter by damaging an area of the brain unrelated to language?