The Brain Scientists Study the Brain Circuits That Tell Us Our Story

Joseph was studying the brain circuits involved in retrieving personal memories. Those are part of what you would call our narrative self, not our physical self. He encountered a man with epilepsy who had an out of body experience each time he had a seizure. Joseph thought if he could locate the sorts of those seizures, it might tell him something about the brain circuits that usually tell us our body is our own.