Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Investigation of the cerebral blood flow of an Omani man with supposed ‘spirit possession’ associated with an altered mental state : a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Investigation of the cerebral blood flow of an Omani man with supposed spirit possession associated with an altered mental state a case report Amr A Guenedi1 Ala Alddin Al Hussaini1 Yousif A Obeid1 Samir Hussain2 Faisal Al-Azri2 and Samir Al-Adawi 1 Address Department of Behavioral Medicine College of Medicine and Sultan Qaboos University Hospital Sultan Qaboos University Muscat Oman and 2Department of Radiology and Molecular Imaging Sultan Qaboos University Hospital Muscat Oman Email Amr A Guenedi - amrguenedi@ Ala Alddin Al Hussaini - aladdinbag@ Yousif A Obeid - yousifa@ Samir Hussain - samirs@ Faisal Al-Azri - falazri@ Samir Al-Adawi - adawi@ Corresponding author Published 10 December 2009 Received 27 July 2008 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 9325 doi 1752-1947-3-9325 Accepted 10 December 2009 This article is available from http content 3 1 9325 2009 Guenedi et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction The view that spirits may possess humans is found in 90 of the world population including Arab Islamic societies. Despite the association between possessive states and various neurological and psychiatric disorders the available literature has yet to correlate possessive states with functional brain imaging modalities such as single-photon-emission computed tomography. Case presentation This paper describes the clinical case of a 22-year-old male Omani patient who presented to us with an altered state of consciousness that his caregiver attributed to possession. We examined whether the patient s mental state correlated with .
