Measuring Brain Blood Flow Change by fNIRS during an Out-of-Body Experience (The 28th Symposium on Life Information Science)

Yasuhiro INUI; Hideyuki KOKUBO

doi:10.18936/islis.27.2_178

Journal of International Society of Life Information Science

Online ISSN : 2424-0761
Print ISSN : 1341-9226
ISSN-L : 1341-9226

The 28th Symposium on Life Information Science

Measuring Brain Blood Flow Change by fNIRS during an Out-of-Body Experience

(The 28th Symposium on Life Information Science)

Yasuhiro INUI, Hideyuki KOKUBO

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Keywords: out-of-body experience, OBE, near infrared spectroscopy, fNIRS, brain blood flow, prefrontal area, tao

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2009 Volume 27 Issue 2 Pages 178-182

DOI https://doi.org/10.18936/islis.27.2_178

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Abstract

In an out-of-body experience (OBE) a person feels his consciousness leaves his own body. Dao jiao Nei-dan fa (tao method) can induce a meditative OBE. The author used near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure a body parameter change during OBE. The veteran subject (male, 71y) showed remarkable decrease of brain blood flow in his prefrontal brain area.

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