medRxiv
July 14, 2026
Kristian Stefanov, Joel T. Parkinson, Flavia Sunzini et al.
preprint
Abstract Nociplastic pain represents a major burden across immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs). It is hypothesised, but not yet demonstrated, that peripheral inflammation promotes nociplastic pain by bottom-up sensitisation of the central nervous system (CNS). In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a prototypic IMID, we used ultra–high field (7T) brain resting-state functional MRI to evaluate...
Scientific Reports
March 20, 2019
Chiara F Tagliabue, Domenica Veniero, Christopher S Y Benwell et al.
How neural representations of low-level visual information are accessed by higher-order processes to inform decisions and give rise to conscious experience is a longstanding question. Research on perceptual decision making has revealed a late event-related EEG potential (the Centro-Parietal Positivity, CPP) to be a correlate of the accumulation of sensory evidence. We tested how this evidence...
eNeuro
2017
Christopher S Y Benwell, Chiara F Tagliabue, Domenica Veniero et al.
Prestimulus oscillatory neural activity has been linked to perceptual outcomes during performance of psychophysical detection and discrimination tasks. Specifically, the power and phase of low frequency oscillations have been found to predict whether an upcoming weak visual target will be detected or not. However, the mechanisms by which baseline oscillatory activity influences perception...
2007
Olaf Blanke, Gregor Thut
In an out-of-body experience (OBE), people seem to be awake and feel that their ‘self’,or centre of experience, is located outside of the physical body. It is from an elevatedextracorporal location that the subjects who undergo an OBE experience seeing theirbody and the world. The following example from Irwin
Journal of Neuroscience
January 19, 2005
Olaf Blanke, Christine Mohr, Christoph M. Michel et al.
573 citations
The spatial unity of self and body is challenged by various philosophical considerations and several phenomena, perhaps most notoriously the "out-of-body experience" (OBE) during which one's visual perspective and one's self are experienced to have departed from their habitual position within one's body. Although researchers started examining isolated aspects of the self, the neurocognitive...