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March 14-16, 2019 | London, UK

International Conference on

Vascular Dementia and Dementia

Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Joint Event

Journal of Brain and Neurology | Volume 3

How to enhance self-consciousness in Dementias

Eva María Arroyo-Anlló

and

Roger Gil

University of Salamanca, Spain

University Hospital, France

ementia provides a valuable field of research into

impairment of the Self. Self-consciousness (SC) or

reflective consciousness (Lechevalier, 1998), is the subject’s

ability to understand his own states of consciousness such as

perceptions, attitudes, opinions and intentions of their actions,

and it’s dependence in the first instance on self-recognition.

SC is the most sublime mental act of the person, the most

distinctive feature of our human condition, which gives us the

feeling of our uniqueness, of unrepeatable beings (Damasio,

2003). SC is multifaceted and it includes awareness of its body,

of the perceptions, of our own projects or the future. It also

includes a moral consciousness that allows human beings to

make judgments about their thoughts and actions and to act in

a complex social world with knowledge of himself and others.

Finally, it is the awareness of each one’s own history, of his

autobiography and, consequently, is inseparable frommemory,

thanks to which the identity of each human is building. Thus,

we can distinguish several aspects of self-consciousness, such

as: Personal identity, Metacognition, Affective state, Body

representation, Prospective memory, Introspection and Moral

judgements. Self-consciousness alterations are manifested

by changes in style of dressing, changes in social presentation

and changes in political ideology or religion. In this way, works

that relate to the exaltation of the SC by music, taste, smell, the

garden ... with the persistence of an emotional stimulation of

an automatic type of the hippocampus (and thus, of memory),

through of the amygdala, are hopeful in the devastating

process of this disease, alleviating their loss of identity. These

emotionally charged sensory stimulations could help to

implement better intervention strategies.

Speaker Biography

Eva María Arroyo-Anlló, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of

Salamanca, Spain. She is a PhD teacher at Neuroscience Institute of Castilla y León

(Spain) in aspects related to the profile of Neuropsychology and dementias. She has had

a training in Clinical Neuropsychology at the University Hospital of Montreal (Canada)

and at the Neurology and Neuropsychology Units of University Hospital of Poitiers

(France). She created her own company “Memory Clinic”, related to rehabilitation

of damaged brain. Currently, she is working as a clinical neuropsychologist at

“Alaejos Clinic” in Salamanca. She is Member of the Experts Panel in Neurosciences

(Neuropsychology) in the XII Directorate-General for Research of the European

Commission (Brussels, Belgium) from 2001. She received several awards Hilario Bravo

Award, Caja Madrid, “Woman of the Year 2000” award from the American Biographical

Institute and “Juan Huarte de San Juan” award.

anlloa@usal.es