ArticleWorld neurosurgery2016
Out-of-Body Experience During Awake Craniotomy.
Article in World neurosurgery, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Neural bases of the bodily self as revealed by electrical brain stimulation: A systematic review.Human brain mapping · 2023Pooled it
- Explanation of near-death experiences: a systematic analysis of case reports and qualitative research.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Out-of-body experiences: interpretations through the eyes of those who live them.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Distinguishing out-of-body experiences from lucid dreaming: a phenomenological analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- The vestibular system in pain and embodiment: cortical overlap, modulatory potential, and therapeutic perspectives.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Defining Transformative Experiences: A Conceptual Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Dissociation of the subjective and objective bodies: Out-of-body experiences following the development of a posterior cingulate lesion.Journal of neuropsychology · 2020Article
- Clinical characteristics of Alice in Wonderland syndrome in a cohort with vestibular migraine.Neurology. Clinical practice · 2018Article
- Commentary: Out-of-Body Experience during Awake Craniotomy.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe out-of-body experience (OBE), during which a person feels as if he or she is spatially removed from the physical body, is a mystical phenomenon because of its association with near-death experiences. Literature implicates the cortex at the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) as the possible anatomic substrate for OBE. CASE DESCRIPTION: We present a patient who had an out-of-body experience during an awake craniotomy for resection of low-grade glioma. During surgery, stimulation of subcortical white matter in the left TPJ repetitively induced OBEs, in which the patient felt as if she was floating above the operating table looking down on herself.
conclusionsWe repetitively induced OBE by subcortical stimulation near the left TPJ during awake craniotomy. Diffusion tensor imaging tractography implicated the posterior thalamic radiation as a possible substrate for autoscopic phenomena.
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