Having an out-of-body experience? Blame this sausage-shaped piece of your brain

Scientists say they've found a special part of the brain that, when stimulated, can cause out-of-body experiences. (Photo illustration: Heath Korvola/Getty Images)

Dr. Josef Parvizi remembers meeting a man with epilepsy whose seizures were causing some very unusual symptoms.

"He came to my clinic and said, 'My sense of self is changing,'" says Parvizi, a professor of neurology at Stanford University.