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Table 1 Main features of different autoscopic phenomena.

From: Autoscopic phenomena: case report and review of literature

 

AH

h-A

FOP

OBE

Nh-A

Ih-A

SEE ONE'S OWN BODY AS

ONLY PARTS OF THE DOUBLE ARE SEEN IN EXACT MIRROR IMAGE

MIRROR IMAGE, MAINTAINED SIDEDNESS, DOUBLE IS COLOURLESS, ECHOPRAXIA BILOCATION

OFTEN ILLUSION OF THE PRESENCE AT THE FRINGE OF VISION, h-A WITHOUT OPTICAL IMAGE

SEPARATION FROM ONE'S OWN BODY AS THE CORE OF THE EXPERIENCE; FROM ELEVATED PERSPECTIVE

FAILURE TO PERCEIVE ONE'S OWN BODY EITHER IN A MIRROR OR WHEN LOOKED AT DIRECTLY

THE INNER ORGANS ARE VISUALLY HALLUCINATED IN THE EXTRAPERSONAL SPACE

DURATION

SECONDS/MINUTES

SECONDS/HOURS

SECONDS

SECONDS/MINUTES

SECONDS/MINUTES

SECONDS/MINUTES

DISEMBODIMENT

-

+/-

+/-

++

+/-

+/-

MAINTAINED SIDEDNESS

-

+

NA

+

NA

NA

PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENOLOGY

-

++

+

++

-

-

INVOLVED CEREBRAL CORTEX

PO (RIGHT?)

TPJ (LEFT?)

?

TPJ (RIGHT?)

SPLENIUM (ONE DESCRIPTION)[69]

?

PREDOMINANT INVOLVED MODALITIES

VISUAL

VISUAL AND SOMAESTHETIC

SOMAESTHETIC ONLY

VISUAL AND SOMAESTHETIC

VISUAL AND SOMAESTHETIC

VISUAL AND SOMAESTHETIC

ACCOMPANYING SYMPTOMS

MICROPSIA HEMIANOPIA

D

D

D, SENSATION OF FLOATING OR FLYING, AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS OR ILLUSIONS OF VIBRATION

D, ASCHEMATIA ASOMATOAGNOSIA

D

VESTIBULAR DISTURBANCE

-

+

-

++

-

-

  1. AH = autoscopic hallucination, h-A = he-autoscopy, FOP = feeling of a presence, OBE = out-of-body experience, Nh-A = negative heautoscopy, Ih-A = inner heautoscopy, PO = parieto-occipital cortex, TPJ = temporo-parietal junction, D = depersonalitation, - = absent, + = present, NA = not applicable; ? = not known; maintained sidedness indicate no shift from left to right in the autoscopic image.