That feeling of being in, and owning, your own body is a fundamental human experience. Now, Professor Olaf Blanke, a neurologist with the Brain Mind Institute at EPFL and the Department of ...

Now, Professor Olaf Blanke, a neurologist with the Brain Mind Institute at EPFL and the Department of Neurology at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, announces an important step in decoding ...

While investigating the source of epileptic seizures in at 23-year-old woman, Swiss scientists report she had a very creepy-sounding sensation: Neurologist Olaf Blanke of the Brain Mind Institute ...

Similarly, Blanke found that patients with out-of-body experiences often had strokes or seizures that affected this area of the brain. “The initial surprise was just how easy it is to trick the ...

As an example, Blanke described the case of a 22-year-old student who had electrodes implanted into the left side of her brain in 2004. "We were checking language areas," Blanke said, when the ...

Now clues about the role that one area of the brain may play in generating such powerful illusions come from a study by Olaf Blanke of the Brain Mind Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

Under normal circumstances the brain is able to form a unified self-perception, but lead researcher Olaf Blanke explained that when this malfunctions the brain creates a second representation of ...

In similar work, Olaf Blanke of the Brain Mind Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and his colleagues persuaded subjects that they were not standing where they ...

Some clues come from the work of Olaf Blanke, a neurologist a Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. In 2002, Blanke managed to induce repeated out-of-body experiences in a 43-year-old ...

Olaf Blanke of the Brain-Mind Institute in Switzerland has been working on understanding the brain by comparing healthy people's minds with those suffering from psychiatric disorders, ...

Researchers investigating how exactly the brain processes the incoming stream of information from the heart and lungs, discovered that specific neurons in the thalamus are actively involved in ...