Mind's eye: A case of out-of-body experiences
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine August 15, 2012 DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.2044 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Case study Case report Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 1 |
| Population | Patient with psychophysiological insomnia and out-of-body experiences |
| Intervention | Haloperidol |
| Key findings | Haloperidol successfully treated the out-of-body experiences in a patient with psychophysiological insomnia. The authors propose that these hallucinations stem from altered neurocognitive networks regulating cognitive arousal. |
Abstract
Out-of-body experiences are the phenomena of seeing the image of one's body from an external perspective. We report the case of a patient affected by psychophysiological insomnia who presents hallucinatory phenomenon, successfully treated with haloperidol.We hypothesize that these hallucinations during psychophysiological insomnia are expression of an alteration of specific neurocognitive networks that regulate the cognitive arousal systems.
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