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Heautoscopy, epilepsy, and suicide

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Brugger, P, Agosti, R, Regard, M, Wieser, H G, Landis, T·1994·Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

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Heautoscopy (the doppelgänger experience), epilepsy, and suicide is a triad primarily known from literary accounts. This paper reports a patient with complex partial seizures who tried to commit suicide during the experience of heautoscopy.

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  • In heautoscopy, self-location and weak first-person perspective are either at the position of the physical body as represented or at the position of the illusory body as represented, or at both.

    “Self-location and weak 1PP are either at the position of the physical body as represented or at the position of the illusory body as represented, or at both.”

    From Full-body illusions and minimal phenomenal selfhood (2009) · cites this paper as [50]

    The case account (SHORT REPORT > Abstract; page not specified) describes bodily awareness switching between the standing and lying bodies. The Discussion (page not specified) likewise says the patient's ego-location could shift from his own body to a viewpoint outside it. Neither passage establishes that first-person perspective was located at both bodies simultaneously. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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  • Autoscopic phenomena indicate that conscious experience can also be characterized by the absence of a unitary visual weak 1PP, or by two simultaneous or rapidly alternating visual weak 1PPs.

    “autoscopic phenomena indicate that conscious experience can also be characterized by the absence of a unitary visual weak 1PP, or by two simultaneous or rapidly alternating visual weak 1PPs.”

    From Full-body illusions and minimal phenomenal selfhood (2009) · cites this paper as [50]

  • In patients with heautoscopy, they claim to jump back and forth between two spatially distinct points of view.

    “This is the case in patients with heautoscopy who claim to jump back and forth between two spatially distinct points of view [23,50].”

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  • Clinical data suggest that remapping of self-location and first-person perspective from the physical body position to an elevated and distanced position and first-person perspective in extrapersonal space at the TPJ is based on a double disintegration of bodily signals, including disintegration between visual and vestibular signals.

    “These clinical data suggest that remapping of self-location and first-person perspective from the physical body position to an elevated and distanced position and firstperson perspective in extrapersonal space at the TPJ is based on a double disintegration of bodily signals, including disintegration between visual and vestibular signals.”

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  1. [6]6. Pauly R. Le double en litterature et en m6dicine. Journal de Medecine de Bordeaux et du Sud-Ouest 1949;126: 309-23.
  2. [12]12. Lemaitre A. Hallucinations autoscopiques chez des ecol- iers. Arch Psychiatr Suisse Romande 1901;1:357-79.
  3. [16]16. Devinsky 0, Bear DM. Varieties of depression in epilepsy. Neuropsychiat Neuropsychol Behav Neurol 1991;4: 49-61.

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Authors
Brugger, P., Agosti, R., Regard, M., Wieser, H. G., & Landis, T.
Affiliations
  • University Hospital Zurich (CH)
  • University of Victoria (CA)
Venue
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
Publisher
BMJ
Published
1994-07-01
Volume
57
Issue
7
Pages
838-839
ISSN
0022-3050 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2029202214
Cited by
94
References
12
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 5
FWCI
0.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hallucinations in medical conditions
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Keywords
epilepsy, suicide attempts, complex partial seizures
MeSH terms
Adult, Hallucinations, Humans, Male, Suicide, Attempted, Epilepsy, Complex Partial

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