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  • Are microglia Minding us? Digging up the Unconscious Mind-brain relationship from a neuropsychoanalytic approach.
    Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2013
    Co-Authors: Takahiro A. Kato, Shigenobu Kanba
    Abstract:

    The Unconscious Mind-brain relationship remains unresolved. From the perspective of neuroscience, neuronal networks including synapses have been dominantly believed to play crucial roles in human mental activities, while glial contribution to mental activities has long been ignored. Recently, it has been suggested that microglia, glial cells with immunological/inflammatory functions, play important roles in psychiatric disorders. Newly revealed microglial roles, such as constant direct contact with synapses even in the normal brain, have defied the common traditional belief that microglia do not contribute to neuronal networks. Recent human neuroeconomic investigations with healthy volunteers using minocycline, an antibiotic with inhibitory effects on microglial activation, suggest that microglia may Unconsciously modulate human social behaviors as “noise.” We herein propose a novel Unconscious Mind structural system in the brain centering on microglia from a neuropsychoanalytic approach. At least to some extent, microglial activation in the brain may activate Unconscious drives as “psychological immune memory/reaction” in the Mind, and result in various emotions, traumatic reactions, psychiatric symptoms including suicidal behaviors, and (psychoanalytic) transference during interpersonal relationships. Microglia have the potential to bridge the huge gap between neuroscience, biological psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis as a key player to connect the conscious and the Unconscious world.

  • are microglia Minding us digging up the Unconscious Mind brain relationship from a neuropsychoanalytic approach
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013
    Co-Authors: Takahiro A. Kato, Shigenobu Kanba
    Abstract:

    The Unconscious Mind-brain relationship remains unresolved. From the perspective of neuroscience, neuronal networks including synapses have been dominantly believed to play crucial roles in human mental activities, while glial contribution to mental activities has long been ignored. Recently, it has been suggested that microglia, glial cells with immunological/inflammatory functions, play important roles in psychiatric disorders. Newly revealed microglial roles, such as constant direct contact with synapses even in the normal brain, have defied the common traditional belief that microglia do not contribute to neuronal networks. Recent human neuroeconomic investigations with healthy volunteers using minocycline, an antibiotic with inhibitory effects on microglial activation, suggest that microglia may Unconsciously modulate human social behaviors as “noise.” We herein propose a novel Unconscious Mind structural system in the brain centering on microglia from a neuropsychoanalytic approach. At least to some extent, microglial activation in the brain may activate Unconscious drives as “psychological immune memory/reaction” in the Mind, and result in various emotions, traumatic reactions, psychiatric symptoms including suicidal behaviors, and (psychoanalytic) transference during interpersonal relationships. Microglia have the potential to bridge the huge gap between neuroscience, biological psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis as a key player to connect the conscious and the Unconscious world.

Takahiro A. Kato - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Are microglia Minding us? Digging up the Unconscious Mind-brain relationship from a neuropsychoanalytic approach.
    Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2013
    Co-Authors: Takahiro A. Kato, Shigenobu Kanba
    Abstract:

    The Unconscious Mind-brain relationship remains unresolved. From the perspective of neuroscience, neuronal networks including synapses have been dominantly believed to play crucial roles in human mental activities, while glial contribution to mental activities has long been ignored. Recently, it has been suggested that microglia, glial cells with immunological/inflammatory functions, play important roles in psychiatric disorders. Newly revealed microglial roles, such as constant direct contact with synapses even in the normal brain, have defied the common traditional belief that microglia do not contribute to neuronal networks. Recent human neuroeconomic investigations with healthy volunteers using minocycline, an antibiotic with inhibitory effects on microglial activation, suggest that microglia may Unconsciously modulate human social behaviors as “noise.” We herein propose a novel Unconscious Mind structural system in the brain centering on microglia from a neuropsychoanalytic approach. At least to some extent, microglial activation in the brain may activate Unconscious drives as “psychological immune memory/reaction” in the Mind, and result in various emotions, traumatic reactions, psychiatric symptoms including suicidal behaviors, and (psychoanalytic) transference during interpersonal relationships. Microglia have the potential to bridge the huge gap between neuroscience, biological psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis as a key player to connect the conscious and the Unconscious world.

  • are microglia Minding us digging up the Unconscious Mind brain relationship from a neuropsychoanalytic approach
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013
    Co-Authors: Takahiro A. Kato, Shigenobu Kanba
    Abstract:

    The Unconscious Mind-brain relationship remains unresolved. From the perspective of neuroscience, neuronal networks including synapses have been dominantly believed to play crucial roles in human mental activities, while glial contribution to mental activities has long been ignored. Recently, it has been suggested that microglia, glial cells with immunological/inflammatory functions, play important roles in psychiatric disorders. Newly revealed microglial roles, such as constant direct contact with synapses even in the normal brain, have defied the common traditional belief that microglia do not contribute to neuronal networks. Recent human neuroeconomic investigations with healthy volunteers using minocycline, an antibiotic with inhibitory effects on microglial activation, suggest that microglia may Unconsciously modulate human social behaviors as “noise.” We herein propose a novel Unconscious Mind structural system in the brain centering on microglia from a neuropsychoanalytic approach. At least to some extent, microglial activation in the brain may activate Unconscious drives as “psychological immune memory/reaction” in the Mind, and result in various emotions, traumatic reactions, psychiatric symptoms including suicidal behaviors, and (psychoanalytic) transference during interpersonal relationships. Microglia have the potential to bridge the huge gap between neuroscience, biological psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis as a key player to connect the conscious and the Unconscious world.

Humayun Zafar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Ezequiel Morsella - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the Unconscious Mind
    Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2008
    Co-Authors: John A Bargh, Ezequiel Morsella
    Abstract:

    The Unconscious Mind is still viewed by many psychological scientists as the shadow of a “real” conscious Mind, though there now exists substantial evidence that the Unconscious is not identifiably less flexible, complex, controlling, deliberative, or action-oriented than is its counterpart. This “conscious-centric” bias is due in part to the operational definition within cognitive psychology that equates Unconscious with subliminal. We review the evidence challenging this restricted view of the Unconscious emerging from contemporary social cognition research, which has traditionally defined the Unconscious in terms of its unintentional nature; this research has demonstrated the existence of several independent Unconscious behavioral guidance systems: perceptual, evaluative, and motivational. From this perspective, it is concluded that in both phylogeny and ontogeny, actions of an Unconscious Mind precede the arrival of a conscious Mind—that action precedes reflection.

Neale Martin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.