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Somatomotor

Visual

Dorsal attention

Salience

Frontoparietal

Limbic

Default

“My left foot

shifted to the right

and the sensation

went all the way

up my calf.” “I feel

tingling in

my leg.”

“I see a star

in the top right

center. It was a blue

and silver star.”

“I just had the

urge to squeeze

my fingers.

They just closed

by themselves.”

“Pulsating feeling,

mostly in the left

chest but also in

the left arm.”

“Just really couldn’t

move (my fingers) too

much; lost the motion. The

hand felt a little tight, but

the thumb was out

of commission.”

“I felt like my

arms were moving

but they weren’t. I felt

side-to-side movements,

like floating

in the air.”

“Feels like

I’m going in a

circle. Everything is

still and I’m moving.

Makes me

feel sick.”

“You just

turned into

somebody else. Your

face metamorphosed.

Your nose got saggy;

went to the left.

Not pretty.”

“For being in

this temperature,

just a little more

sensitive. Almost as if

I was in a colder

temperature.”

“It smells

funny.

Negative, like

nail polish.”

Patient

describes a

feeling of nervous

anticipation.

Patient cannot

repeat

“If she comes,

I will go.”

Speech

arrest.

“Aroused,

calm ...

sexually excited.”

Patient

says she

felt dizzy.

Patient

describes

a feeling

of fear.

Patient
describes a negative
emotional feeling,
seemingly localized
in the chest.

“That

felt good; quite

erotic. I can’t even,

um, I felt good.

I can’t explain it.

Um, yeah, you’re

embarrassing me!”

Patient laughs

and says they

“felt well

internally.”

Source: “Intrinsic Network Architecture Predicts the Effects Elicited by Intracranial Electrical Stimulation of the Human Brain,” by

Kieran C.

R. Fox et

al., in

Nature Human Behaviour,

Vol.

4; July

2020