Paul van de Heyning

Visualizing Out-of-Body Experience in the Brain

New England Journal of Medicine October 31, 2007 Dirk de Ridder, Koen van Laere, Patrick Dupont et al. 225 citations

An out-of-body experience was repeatedly elicited during stimulation of the posterior part of the superior temporal gyrus on the right side in a patient in whom electrodes had been implanted to suppress tinnitus. Positron-emission tomographic scanning showed brain activation at the temporoparietal junction--more specifically, at the angular-supramarginal gyrus junction and the superior temporal...