90 Epileptologie 2007 Clinical Neuroimaging in Epileptic Patients with Autoscopic Hallucinations... | Olaf Blanke and V Castillo Summary

Autoscopic phenomena are complex illusory percep-tions of one's body during which human subjects expe-rience a second own body or double in their environ-ment. Autoscopic phenomena most commonly refer to-visual doubles, although doubles may also be felt or heard and consist of autoscopic hallucinations, out-of-body experiences, and heautoscopy. Recently, many neurological reports have focussed on out-of-body experiences. Here we review neurologi-cal data on autoscopic hallucinations and present a ca-se during complex partial seizures due to neurocysticer-cosis