Out of body experiences and their neural basis

British Medical Journal

Volumn 329, Issue 7480, 2004, Pages 1414-1415

  Blanke, Olaf ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; EDITORIAL; EPILEPSY; ILLUSION; MIGRAINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 10844254541     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.329.7480.1414     Document Type: Editorial

References (12)

1. Irwin HJ. Flight of mind: A psychological study of the out-of-body experience. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1985.
2. Blackmore SJ. Beyond the body. An investigation of out-of-body experiences. London: Heinemann, 1982.
3. Blanke O, Landis T, Spinelli L, Seeck M. Out-of-body experience and autoscopy of neurological origin. Brain 2004;127:243-58.
4. Neisser U. The five kinds of self-knowledge. Phil Psychol 1988;1:35-59.
5. Metzinger T. Being no one. Cambridge, MS: MIT Press, 2003.
6. Devinsky O, Feldmann E, Burrowes K, Bromfield E. Autoscopic phenomena with seizures. Arch Neurol 1989;46:1080-8.
7. Brugger P, Regard M, Landis T. Illusory reduplication of one's own body-phenomenology and classification of autoscopic phenomena. Cogn Neuropsychiatr 1997;2:19-38.
8. Blanke O, Ortigue S, Landis T, Seeck M. Stimulating illusory own-body perceptions. Nature 2002;419:269-70.
9. Ramachandran VS, Hirstein W. The perception of phantom limbs. Brain 1998;121:1603-30.
10. Kircher T, David A. The self in neuroscience and psychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
11. Decety J, Sommerville JA. Shared representations between self and other: a social cognitive neuroscience view. Trends Cogn Sci 2003;7:527-33.
12. Blanke O, Arzy S. The out-of body experience. Disturbed self processing at the temporo-parietal junction. Neuroscientist (in press).