Leaving body and life behind: Out-of-body and near-death experience

The Neurology of Consciousness

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 303-325

  Blanke, Olaf ^a   Dieguez, Sebastian ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

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