Out-of-body experiences linked to neural instability and biases in body representation

Monday, July 11, 2011 - 08:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Although out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are typically associated with migraine, epilepsy and psychopathology, they are quite common in healthy and psychologically normal individuals as well. However, they are poorly understood. A new study has linked these experiences to neural instabilities in the brain’s temporal lobes and to errors in the body’s sense of itself – even in non clinical populations.

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