OBJECTIVE Research has consistently shown that anxiety disorders are common among individuals with eating disorders. Although social phobia has been found to be highly associated with eating disorders, less is known about social anxiety in individuals with binge eating disorder (BED). The present study examined associations between social anxiety and self-consciousness with body mass index (BMI...

OBJECTIVES To propose a neuropsychological study of the various aspects of self-consciousness (SC) in Alzheimer's disease. METHODS Forty-five patients with probable mild or moderate AD were included in the study. Severity of their dementia was assessed by the Mini Mental State (MMS). Fourteen questions were prepared to evaluate SC. RESULTS No significant correlations were found between SC s...

This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution , reselling , loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to da...

Agency is an important aspect of bodily self-consciousness, allowing us to separate own movements from those induced by the environment and to distinguish own movements from those of other agents. Unsurprisingly, theoretical frameworks for agency such as central monitoring are closely tied to computational models of sensorimotor control. Until recently agency research has largely focussed on go...

This paper deals with the relationship between the embodied cognition paradigm and two sets of its implications: its implications for the ontology of selves, and its implications for the nature and extent of phenomenal consciousness. There has been a recent wave of interest within cognitive science in the paradigm variously called ‘embodied,’ ‘extended,’ ‘situated’ or ‘distributed’ cognition. A...

Cognition 92: 231–42. Rosenthal, D. 2002. Explaining consciousness. In Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings, ed. D. Chalmers, 406–21. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Rosenthal, D. 2004. Varieties of higher order theory. In Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness, ed. R. Gennaro, 17–44. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Rosenthal, D. 2005a. Consciousness and Mind. Oxford: Oxford Univ...

c CONSCIOUSNESS Consciousness is a state characterised by awareness of self and environment and an ability to respond to environmental factors. Normal consciousness can be regarded as having two separate but closely interrelated components. The first of these is the arousal component of wakefulness. It is this that keeps the patient awake and which relates to the physical manifestations of awak...

This paper argues that self-consciousness and moral agency depend crucially on both embodied and social aspects of human existence, and that the capacity for practical wisdom, phronesis, is central to moral personhood. The nature of practical wisdom is elucidated by drawing on rival analyses of expertise. Although ethical expertise and practical wisdom differ importantly, they are alike in that...