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DIMENSIONS OF DELUSIONS

BRAINS WITH MINDS: an interdisciplinary workgroup

biweekly meetings on Wednesday (reading group & talks)

 

You are invited to join us!


EVERY SECOND WEDNESDAY AT 5.30 p.m.

VENUE: Humboldt Graduate School, Luisenstraße 56 | Mitte | Room 122 or 123

TIMETABLE WINTER TERM 2011

 

19.10.: Kick off meeting

16.11.: Introduction into the Concept of Delusions

7.12.: Introduction into the Concept of Delusions / Delusions in Religion

8.2.: Neurobiology of Delusions

 

 

announced papers are available under following mailadress: cils.hu (at) gmail.com

NEXT SESSION: 8th of FEBRUARY

5.30 p.m. - room 220 - Luisenstr.56

 

NEUROBIOLOGY OF DELUSIONS

 

READING:

P.R. Corlett, J.R.Taylor, X.-J.Wangb, P.C. Fletcher, J.H.Krystal (2010). Towards a new neurobiology of delusion. Progress in Neurobiology, 92; 345-369.

LINK TO THE PAPER

7th of DECEMBER

5.30 p.m. - room 220 - Luisenstr.56

 

INTRODUCTION INTO THE CONCEPT OF DELUSION

DELUSIONS IN RELIGION

 

READINGS:

  • Johns, L. C., & van Os, J. (2001). The continuity of psychotic experiences in the general population. Clinical psychology review, 21(8), 1125–1141.

  • Peters et al. (1999). Delusional ideation in religious and psychotic populations. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 38, 83-96.

16th NOVEMBER

5.30 p.m. - room 220 - Luisenstr.56

 

INTRODUCTION INTO THE CONCEPT OF DELUSION

 

READINGS:

  • Jaspers, Karl (1953). §4 Das Realitätsbewusstsein und die Wahnideen (p.78-97). In: Jaspers, Karl (1953). Allgemeine Psychopathologie. Berlin: Springer. (6.Auflage)

  • Delespaul, P., & van Os, J. (2003). Jaspers was right after all--delusions are distinct from normal beliefs. Against. Br J Psychiatry, 183, 286.

  • Johns, L. C., & van Os, J. (2001). The continuity of psychotic experiences in the general population. Clinical psychology review, 21(8), 1125–1141.

PAST SESSION 25th March

Vosgerau & Langland-Hassan will be present at the workshop

Thought Insertion - Philosophy
READINGS:

  • Vosgerau, G. & Synofzik, M. (2010). A Cognitive Theory of Thoughts. American Philosophical Quarterly 47, 205-222.
  • Langland-Hassan, P. (2008). Fractured Phenomenologies: Thought Insertion, Inner Speech, and the Puzzle of Extraneity. Mind & Language 23, 369-401.

Further Readings:

  • Vosgerau, G. (2009). Die Stufentheorie des Selbstbewusstseins und ihre Implikationen für das Verständnis psychiatrischer Störungen. Journal für Philosophie und Psychiatrie 2.
  • Vosgerau, G. & Newen, A. (2007). Thoughts, Motor Actions, and the Self. Mind & Language 22(1), 22-43.
  • Campbell, J. (1999), Schizophrenia, the Space of Reasons, and Thinking as a Motor Process. The Monist 82(4), 609-625.

MARCH 11th

W. Strik will be present at the workshop in May

READINGS:

  • Mullins S, Spence SA (2003) Re-examining thought insertion.
    Semi-structured literature review and conceptual analysis.
    Br J Psychiatry 182, 293-8.
  • Strik und Dierks (2008) Neurophysiological mechanisms of psychotic symptoms.
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci vol. 258 Suppl 5 pp. 66-70

Further readings:

  • Morrison A.P. (2005) Psychosis and the phenomenon of unwanted intrusive thoughts. In: Clark DA. Intrusive thoughts in clinical disorders: Theory, research, and treatment. Guilford Press; New York: 2005.
  • Fletcher PC, Frith CD (2009) Perceiving is believing: a Bayesian approach to explaining the positive symptoms of schizophrenia. Nat Rev Neurosci 10(1), 48-58.

FEBRUARY 25th

M. Voss will be present

Disturbances of Agency in Schizophrenia - Empirical Studies

 

READINGS:

  • Voss M, Moore J, Hauser M, Gallinat J, Heinz A & Haggard P. (2010) Altered awareness of action in Schizophrenia: A specific deficit in predicting action consequences. Brain 133(10):3104-12.
  • Synofzik M, Thier P, Leube DT, Schlotterbeck P, Lindner A. (2010) Misattributions of agency in schizophrenia are based on imprecise predictions about the sensory consequences of one's actions. Brain. 2010 Jan;133(Pt 1):262-71

    Further readings:
  • Hauser M, Knoblich G, Repp B, Lautenschlager M, Gallinat J, Heinz A & Voss M. (2010) Altered agency judgments in schizophrenia and the putative psychotic prodrome. Psychiatry Research 2010 Sep 6. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Haggard P. (2008) Human volition: towards a neuroscience of will. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2008 Dec;9(12):934-46. Review.

FEBRUARY 11th

G. Carruthers will be present

READINGS:

  • Synofzik et al. (2008). Beyond the comparator model: a multifactorial two-step account of agency. Consciousness and Cognition (vol. 17 (1) pp. 219-39)
  • Carruthers, G. (2009). Commentary on Synofzik, Vosgerau and Newen 2008. Consciousness and Cognition (vol. 18 (2) pp. 515-20)

 

Further reading:

  • Pacherie, E. (2008). The phenomenology of action: A conceptual framework. Cognition, 107, 1:179-217.
  • Synofzik M and Voss M. (2010) Disturbances of the sense of agency in schizophrenia. In: Neuropsychology of the Sense of Agency, (Edtitor: Michela Balconi), Springer, Italy.
  • Carruthers. A model of the synchronic self. Consciousness and Cognition(2007) vol. 16 (2) pp. 533-50.
  • Gallagher. Philosophical conceptions of the self: implications for cognitive science. Trends Cogn Sci (Regul Ed) (2000) vol. 4 (1) pp. 14-21.

SELECTION OF TALKS IN THE PAST

Friday, 22nd October 2010, 17.15

Prof. Dr. Dr. Henrik Walter:

'Not all determinism are created equal. On the neurobiology of free will.'

Background Readings:

Henrik Walter. Neurophilosophy of Moral Responsibility: The Case for Revisionist Compatibilism. Philosophical Topics 2004

Friday, 17th Septmber 2010, 17.15

Prof. Dr. Michael Pauen:

'Freedom without Alternatives? A Compatibilist Approach.'

Background Readings:

Pauen – Alternative Possibilities Revisited.

Pauen – Minimal Freedom. Free Will, Responsibility, and Determinism.

 

Friday, 16th of July 2010, 5:00 p.m.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinz:

'Cultural Aspects of Schizophrenia'

 

Thursday, July 16

MisAttribution:  Agency in thought and action

Workshop with Shaun Gallagher, Suzanne Anker

Sense of ownership and agency

Relating thought to action - Embodiment

READING LIST SO FAR

  • Bernpohl F, Heinz A. (2010). Construction and Dysfunction of the Self. In: Transcultural Psychiatry.
  • Carruthers, Glenn (2009). Commentary on Synofzik.
  • Cermolacce, Michel, Naudin, Jean & Parnas, Josef. The "minimal self" in psychopathology: re-examining the self-disorders in the schizophrenia spectrum.
  • Clausen, Jens (2009) Man, machine and in between. Nature 457, 1080-1081.
  • Cole, Jonathan (2008). Phenomenology, neuroscience and impairment. Abstracta: 20-33.
  • Cole, Sacks, Waterman (2000). On the immunity principle: a view from a robot. Trends in Cognitive Science 4, No. 5: 167
  • Coliva, Annalisa (2002). Thought Insertion and Immunity to Error Through Misidentification. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology - Vol. 9, no. 1, March 2002, pp.27-34
  • Corlett, Frith & Fletcher.  From drugs to deprivation: a Bayesian framework for understanding models of psychosis.
  • Ehrsson (2007). The experimental induction of out-of-body experiences. Science v317 (24 August): 1048.
  • Gallagher, S. (2000). Philosophical conceptions of the self: implications for cognitive science. Trends in Cognitive Science 4, No. 1: 14-21.
  • Gallagher, Shaun (2000). Reply to Cole, Sacks, and Waterman. Trends in Cognitive Science 4, No. 5 (2000): 167-68.
  • Gallagher, Shaun (2008). Are minimal representations still representations? International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16 (3): 351-69.
  • Gallagher, Shaun. Neurocognitive Models of Schizophrenia: A Neurophenomenological Critique.
  • Gallagher. Philosophy and cognitive science. Lecture at Canisius College. [18 pp]
  • Ghallager,  Shaun. Self-Agency and Mental Causality.
  • Jablensky& Sartorius (2008). What did the WHO studies really find?. Schizophrenia Bulletin.
  • Kosslyn (1999). If neuroimaging is the answer, what is the question?
  • Lele & Norgaard
  • Mullins, Simon & Spence, Sean A. (2003). Re-examining thought insertion. Semi-structured literature review and conceptual analysis. British Journal of Psychiatry, 182, 293 - 298.
  • Pauen, Michael.  Minimal Freedom. Free Will, Responsibility, and Determinism.
  • Pauen, Michael. Alternative Possibilities Revisited.
  • Petkova & Ehrsson (2008). If I were you: Perceptual illusion of body swapping. PLoS ONE 3 (12): e3832. [9 pp]
  • Pickard, Hanna. Schizophrenia and the Epistemology of Self-Knowledge .
  • Rose, Robert (2009). Embodying the Mind: A brief history of the science integrating mind and body. NeuroImage.
  • Roth, Gerhard & Pauen, Michael (2008). Freiheit, Schuld und Veranwortung: Grundzüge einer naturalistischen Theorie der Willensfreiheit. Edition Unseld. Suhrkamp Verlag.
  • Sass, Louis & Parnas, Josef.  Schizophrenia, Consciousness and the Self.
  • Sharpley et al. (2001). Understanding the excess of psychosis among the African-Caribbean population in England. Review of current hypotheses. Br J Psychiatry.
  • Stanford Encyclopedia : T.S. Kuhn
  • Synofzik et al. (2008). Beyond the comparator model: A multifactoral two-step account of agency.
  • Synofzik et al. (2008). I move, therefore I am: A new theoretical framework to investigate agency and ownership.
  • Vogeley, Kai. Schizophrenia as disturbance of the self-construct. In: The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry. 361-379.
  • Walter, Henrik. Neurophilosophy of Moral Responsibility: The Case for Revisionist Compatibilism. Philosophical Topics 2004.
  • Wu, Wayne. Explaining Schizophrenia.

ARCHIVE OF MEETINGS

Friday, 27th of November 2010, 6.30 p.m.

Shaun Gallagher: Self-Agency and Mental Causality

Luis Sass & Josef parnas: Schizophrenia, Consciousness and the Self

Friday, 22nd October 2010, 17.15

Volition & Psychiatric Illness

talk by Prof. Dr. Dr. Henrik Walter: 'Not all determinism are created equal. On the neurobiology of free will.'

Background Readings:

Henrik Walter. Neurophilosophy of Moral Responsibility: The Case for Revisionist Compatibilism.

Friday, 17th Septmber 2010, 17.15

talk by Prof. Dr. Michael Pauen: 'Freedom without Alternatives? A Compatibilist Approach.'

Background Readings:

Pauen – Alternative Possibilities Revisited.

Pauen – Minimal Freedom. Free Will, Responsibility, and Determinism.

Friday, 3rd of September 2010, 5:00 p.m. c.t.

Volition & Psychiatric Illness

Henrik Walter. Neurophilosophy of Moral Responsibility: The Case for Revisionist Compatibilism. Background reading:

extracts from: Gerhard Roth and Michael Pauen – Freiheit, Schuld und Veranwortung: Grundzüge einer naturalistischen Theorie der Willensfreiheit.

Friday, 16th of July 2010, 5:00 p.m.

talk by Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinz: 'Cultural Aspects of Schizophrenia'

Friday, 2nd of July 2010, 5:00 p.m.

CULTURAL ASPECTS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

Bermpohl F, Heinz A.: Construction and Dysfunction of the Self in Transcultural

Background reading:

Jablensky und Sartorius: What did the WHO studies really find?.

Sharpley et al.: Understanding the excess of psychosis among the African-Caribbean population in England. Review of current hypotheses.

Friday, 18th of June 2010, 5:00 p.m.

Corlett, Frith and Fletcher: From drugs to deprivation: a Bayesian framework for understanding models of psychosis

Friday, 5th of March 2010, 6.30 p.m.

Hanna Pickard: Schizophrenia and the Epistemology of Self-Knowledge

Friday, 19th of February 2010, 6.30 p.m.

Following Wayne's Mind and Brain talk on Thursday!

Wayne Wu: Explaining Schizophrenia

Friday, 29nd of January 2010, 6.30 p.m.

'The "minimal self" in psychopathology: re-examining the self-disorders in the schizophrenia spectrum' by Michel Cermolacce, Jean Naudin and Josef Parnas,

additional articles:

an editorial by Dorothé Legrand that clarifies the difference between 'reflexivity' and 'reflectivity' and an empirical study about anomalous self experience.

Friday, 15th of January, 6.30 p.m.

PLANNING MEETING

Friday, 8th of January 2010, 6.30 p.m.

'Schizophrenia, Consciousness and the Self' from Louis Sass and Josef Parnas

Thursday, July 16

MisAttribution:  Agency in thought and action

Workshop with Shaun Gallagher, Suzanne Anker

Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstr. 56, room 123

11.00 – 13.00:  Sense of ownership and agency

Discussion with Shaun Gallagher

15.00-16.00 / 16.30-18.00: Relating thought to action - Embodiment

Exhibition in the ‘Hörsaalruine’ (Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Charitéplatz 1 (ehemals Schumannstr. 20/21)

Panel discussion with:

Shaun Gallagher, philosopher, Universities of Central Florida & Hertfordshire

Suzanne Anker, artist, New York School of Visual Arts

Paula Droege, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Sabine Flach, Zentrum für Literature / Daniel Margulies, Berlin School of Mind and Brain / Anna Strasser, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

background readings:

Gallagher, S. 2000. Philosophical conceptions of the self: implications for cognitive science. Trends in Cognitive Science 4, No. 1: 14-21.

Cole, Sacks, Waterman. 2000. On the immunity principle: a view from a robot. Trends in Cognitive Science 4, No. 5: 167 and Gallagher. 2000. Reply to Cole, Sacks, and Waterman. Trends in Cognitive Science 4, No. 5 (2000): 167-68.

Petkova & Ehrsson. 2008. If I were you: Perceptual illusion of body swapping. PLoS ONE 3 (12): e3832. [9 pp]

Gallagher. Philosophy and cognitive science. Lecture at Canisius College. [18 pp]

Ehrsson. 2007. The experimental induction of out-of-body experiences. Science v317(24 August): 1048

Gallagher. 2008. Are minimal representations still representations? International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16 (3): 351-69.

Friday, 26 June 18:00 ct

Giovanni Romano will lead discussion of Gallagher.

Friday, 12 June 18:00 ct

Anna Strasser will lead discussion of Vogeley.

Vogeley, Kai: Schizophrenia as disturbance of the self-construct

Tuesday, 2 June 18:00 ct

Carruthers will speak at the Pauen Colloquium

Friday, 29 May 18:00 ct

Paula Droege will lead discussion of Synofzik and Carruthers.  (Carruthers will be present)

24.4.09 6:00

PLANNING MEETING

17.4.09 6:00

Continued discussion of comparator model

Synofzik et al.: "Beyond the comparator model: A multifactoral two-step account of agency."

Carruthers, Glenn: "Commentary on Synofzik"

Synofzik et al. : "I move, therefore I am: A new theoretical framework to investigate agency and ownership."

3.4.2009  18:00 pm

Shaun Gallagher, “Neurocognitive Models of Schizophrenia: A Neurophenomenological Critique.”

13.3.2009: 18.00

Thought insertion again  - Campell versus Colliva revisited

Third meeting

Topic: mental disorders as a test case

Coliva, Annalisa (2002). Thought Insertion and Immunity to Error Through Misidentification.

 

13.2.2009: 18.00

Giacomini

Lele & Norgaard

Stanford Encyclopedia : T.S. Kuhn

28.1.2009: 18.00

If neuroimaging is the answer, what is the question? (Kosslyn, 1999)

SIMON MULLINS and SEAN A. SPENCE (2003). Re-examining thought insertion.

Semi-structured literature review and conceptual analysis.

Jonathan Cole. "Phenomenology, neuroscience and impairment."

Robert Rose. "Embodying the Mind: A brief history of the science integrating mind and body."

Jens Clausen. "Man, machine and in between."

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