Insular Stimulation Produces Mental Clarity and Bliss

For the first time, an ecstatic aura has been evoked through the electrical stimulation of the dorsal anterior insula during presurgical invasive intracerebral monitoring in a patient who did not suffer from an ecstatic form of epilepsy. This case provides more evidence that the anterior insula is t...

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Autores principales: Nencha, Umberto, Spinelli, Laurent, Vulliemoz, Serge, Seeck, Margitta, Picard, Fabienne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2021
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9300149/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34877703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ana.26282
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author Nencha, Umberto
Spinelli, Laurent
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Picard, Fabienne
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description For the first time, an ecstatic aura has been evoked through the electrical stimulation of the dorsal anterior insula during presurgical invasive intracerebral monitoring in a patient who did not suffer from an ecstatic form of epilepsy. This case provides more evidence that the anterior insula is the major generator of such a mystical‐type experience even in individuals with no underlying brain network changes related to a preexisting ecstatic epilepsy. ANN NEUROL 2022;91:289–292
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spelling pubmed-93001492022-07-21 Insular Stimulation Produces Mental Clarity and Bliss Nencha, Umberto Spinelli, Laurent Vulliemoz, Serge Seeck, Margitta Picard, Fabienne Ann Neurol Brief Communications For the first time, an ecstatic aura has been evoked through the electrical stimulation of the dorsal anterior insula during presurgical invasive intracerebral monitoring in a patient who did not suffer from an ecstatic form of epilepsy. This case provides more evidence that the anterior insula is the major generator of such a mystical‐type experience even in individuals with no underlying brain network changes related to a preexisting ecstatic epilepsy. ANN NEUROL 2022;91:289–292 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2021-12-20 2022-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9300149/ /pubmed/34877703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ana.26282 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Annals of Neurology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Neurological Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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