Unilaterally felt "presences": The neuropsychiatry of one's invisible doppelgänger

Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 114-122

  Brugger, Peter ^a   Regard, Marianne ^a   Landis, Theodor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autoscopic phenomena; Body schema; Unilateral somaesthetic illusions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUSION; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

EID: 0029879831     PISSN: 0894878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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