Out-of-body experience in the anterior insular cortex during the intracranial electrodes stimulation in an epileptic child.
Journal of Clinical Neuroscience August 1, 2018 Kaijia Yu, Chang Liu, Tao Yu et al.
The authors present a case of an out-of- body experience (OBE) that occurred in a child with intractable epilepsy when stimulating the anterior insular cortex (AIC) by intracranial electrodes. After destroying several sites precisely located at the left AIC by radiofrequency thermocoagulation, the patient's seizures disappeared, and the OBE could not be reproduced when repeatedly stimulating...
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2018.04.050 (opens in new tab)
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Consciousness
Epilepsy
Insular cortex
Out-of-body experience
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