Georg Northoff - Are Self & Consciousness In The Brain? - 20/11/2014

Georg Northoff is a psychiatrist and holds two PhD’s (Neuroscience/Psychiatry and Philosophy). He is the Canada Research Chair for Mind, Brain Imaging, and Neuroethics as well as the Michael Smith Chair for Neuroscience and Mental Health at University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research. His research focuses on the neural and biochemical mechanisms related to higher-order mental functions like consciousness and self in both healthy subjects and psychiatric disorders like depression and schizophr