The functional counterpart of these anatomical disorders could be an abnormal coordination between neurons of the same (local) and/or distant (long-range) areas. Functional integration is thought to allow segregated neurons to interact as a global assembly. Such a process is supposed to allow information to be streamed and bound into the coherent whole that we experience as consciousness.34-36 It is viable to think that this could be the process which breaks down in schizophrenic patients.37,38
