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Conscious Cogn ; 91: 103117, 2021 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33872985

RESUMO

The idea that our perceptions in the here and now are influenced by prior events and experiences has recently received substantial support and attention from the proponents of the Predictive Processing (PP) and Active Inference framework in philosophy and computational neuroscience. In this paper we look at how perceptual experiences get off the ground from the outset, in utero. One basic yet overlooked aspect of current PP approaches is that human organisms first develop within another human body. Crucially, while not all humans will have the experience of being pregnant or carrying a baby, the experience of being carried and growing within another person's body is universal. Specifically, we focus on the development of minimal selfhood in utero as a process co-embodiment and co-homeostasis, and highlight their close relationship. We conclude with some implications on several critical questions fuelling current debates on the nature of conscious experiences, minimal self and social cognition.


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Estado de Consciência , Filosofia , Homeostase , Humanos
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Cortex ; 130: 203-219, 2020 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32679408

RESUMO

Recently, a monothematic delusion of body ownership due to brain damage (i.e., the embodiment of someone else's body part within the patient's sensorimotor system) has been extensively investigated. Here we aimed at defining in-depth the clinical features and the neural correlates of the delusion. Ninety-six stroke patients in a sub-acute or chronic phase of the illness were assessed with a full ad-hoc protocol to evaluate the embodiment of an alien arm under different conditions. A sub-group of seventy-five hemiplegic patients was also evaluated for the embodiment of the movements of the alien arm. Fifty-five patients were studied to identify the neural bases of the delusion by means of voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping approach. Our results show that, in forty percent of the whole sample, simply viewing the alien arm triggered the delusion, but only if it was a real human arm and that was seen from a 1st person perspective in an anatomically-correct position. In the hemiplegic sub-group, the presence of the embodiment of the alien arm was always accompanied by the embodiment of its passive and active movements. Furthermore, the delusion was significantly associated to primary proprioceptive deficits and to damages of the corona radiata and the superior longitudinal fasciculus. To conclude, we show that the pathological embodiment of an alien arm is well-characterized by recurrent and specific features and might be explained as a disconnection deficit, mainly involving white matter tracts. The proposed exhaustive protocol can be successfully employed to assess stroke-induced disorders of body awareness, unveiling even their more undetectable or covert clinical forms.


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Lesões Encefálicas , Acidente Vascular Cerebral , Conscientização , Corpo Humano , Humanos , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/complicações , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/diagnóstico por imagem
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Int J Radiat Biol ; 89(5): 319-25, 2013 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23311575

RESUMO

PURPOSE: Overexpression of human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER-2/neu) in breast cancer patients is a prerequisite for treatment with trastuzumab. In the present study, we demonstrate by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis that HER-2/neu gene amplification and chromosome 17 (CEP17) polysomy can be induced by irradiation in human breast cancer cell lines with low basal level of HER-2/neu. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The irradiation-induced HER-2/neu gene amplification and CEP17 polysomy enhanced HER-2/neu at the protein level in both human MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-435 breast cancer cell lines which was determined by immunohistochemistry and fluorescence analysis and was correlated with mRNA levels. RESULTS: Irradiation affected to a high degree the responsiveness of both cell lines to in vitro treatment with trastuzumab. The direct antiproliferative effect of trastuzumab, as well as its capacity to induce natural killer (NK) cell-mediated antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC), was considerably higher in the irradiated tumor cells compared to their non-irradiated counterparts. CONCLUSION: Our data demonstrate that irradiation induces HER-2/neu gene amplification and CEP17 polysomy thereby enhancing expression of this protein in breast cancer cell lines rendering them susceptible to treatment with trastuzumab. They also suggest that patients with HER-2/neu negative inoperable tumors undergoing local radiation therapy may benefit from treatment with trastuzumab.


Assuntos
Anticorpos Monoclonais Humanizados/farmacologia , Neoplasias da Mama/patologia , Terapia Combinada/métodos , Raios gama/uso terapêutico , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica/efeitos dos fármacos , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica/efeitos da radiação , Receptor ErbB-2/metabolismo , Anticorpos Monoclonais Humanizados/uso terapêutico , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Proliferação de Células/efeitos dos fármacos , Proliferação de Células/efeitos da radiação , Aberrações Cromossômicas/efeitos dos fármacos , Aberrações Cromossômicas/efeitos da radiação , Cromossomos Humanos Par 17/efeitos dos fármacos , Cromossomos Humanos Par 17/genética , Cromossomos Humanos Par 17/efeitos da radiação , Resistencia a Medicamentos Antineoplásicos/efeitos da radiação , Humanos , Hibridização in Situ Fluorescente , Trastuzumab
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