Deficient mental own-body imagery in a neurological patient with out-of-body experiences due to cannabis use

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 228-235

  Overney, Leila S ^a   Arzy, Shahar ^a   Blanke, Olaf ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body; Drug use; Mental imagery; Out of body experiences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY POSITION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CANNABIS SMOKING; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; METAPHYSICS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE; QUADRIPLEGIA; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; SPASTICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 58149468781     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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