Eelke M Bos

Out-of-Body Experience During Awake Craniotomy.

World neurosurgery August 1, 2016 Eelke M Bos, Jochem K H Spoor, Marion Smits et al.

The 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. We present a patient who had an out-of-body experience during an awake...