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density schrieb am 20. September 2002 um 8:44 Uhr (454x gelesen):

Leider konnte ich nicht den ganzen Artikel bekommen, da man dafuer die Zeitschrift online kaufen muss :-(

Interessant ist dass die emailadresse von dem Herrn Blanke dabei ist :-) Man kann der Sache also auf den Grund gehen.

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Neuropsychology: Stimulating illusory own-body perceptions

OLAF BLANKE*†, STPHANIE ORTIGUE†, THEODOR LANDIS† & MARGITTA SEECK*

* Laboratory of Presurgical Epilepsy Evaluation, Program of Functional Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Hospitals of Geneva and Lausanne, Geneva 1211 and Lausanne 1011, Switzerland
† Functional Brain Mapping Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Geneva University Hospital, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland

e-mail: olaf.blanke@hcuge.ch

'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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