Abnormal self-location and vestibular vertigo in a patient with right frontal lobe epilepsy

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• 作者：Christophe Lopez ; Lukas Heydrich ; Margitta Seeck ; Olaf Blanke
• 关键词：Embodiment ; Vestibular system ; Frontal cortex ; Out-of-body experience ; First-person perspective ; Multisensory integration
• 刊名：Epilepsy & Behavior
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：February 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：17
• 期：2
• 页码：289-292
• 全文大小：468 K

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We describe the case of a 33-year-old man with complex partial seizures characterized by the feeling of being projected outside his body, including dissociation of “mind and self from body” (disembodiment), followed by vestibular vertigo due to right frontal lobe epilepsy caused by an oligodendroglioma. We distinguish the patient’s ictal symptoms with respect to autoscopic phenomena (out-of-body experience, heautoscopy, autoscopic hallucinations) and vestibular phenomena of epileptic origin, and we discuss their neural origin with respect to vestibular and multisensory cortical mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness in temporoparietal and frontal cortex.