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Stimulating illusory own-body perceptions

Blanke, Olaf  
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Ortigue, Stéphanie
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Landis, Theodor
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2002
Nature

'Out-of-body' experiences (OBEs) are curious, usually brief sensations in which a person's consciousness seems to become detached from the body and take up a remote viewing position. Here we describe the repeated induction of this experience by focal electrical stimulation of the brain's right angular gyrus in a patient who was undergoing evaluation for epilepsy treatment. Stimulation at this site also elicited illusory transformations of the patient's arm and legs (complex somatosensory responses) and whole-body displacements (vestibular responses), indicating that out-of-body experiences may reflect a failure by the brain to integrate complex somatosensory and vestibular information.

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DOI
10.1038/419269a
Author(s)
Blanke, Olaf  
Ortigue, Stéphanie
Landis, Theodor
Seeck, Margitta
Date Issued

2002

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Published in
Nature
Volume

419

Issue

6904

Start page

269

End page

70

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

OTHER

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LNCO  
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November 16, 2010
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