Investigation of the cerebral blood flow of an Omani man with supposed 'spirit possession' associated with an altered mental state : a case report.
Journal of Medical Case Reports December 10, 2009 Amr A Guenedi, Ala'Alddin Al Hussaini, Yousif A Obeid et al. 9 citations
The view that spirits may possess humans is found in 90% of the world population, including Arab/Islamic societies. Despite the association between possessive states and various neurological and psychiatric disorders, the available literature has yet to correlate possessive states with functional brain imaging modalities such as single-photon-emission computed tomography. This paper describes...