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Neurophenomenology of near-death experience memory in hypnotic recall: a within-subject EEG study. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2019
The neurobiological basis of near-death experiences (NDEs) is unknown, but a few studies attempted to investigate it by reproducing in laboratory settings phenomenological experiences that seem to closely resemble NDEs.
Martial C, Mensen A, Charland-Verville V, Vanhaudenhuyse A, Rentmeister D, Bahri MA, Cassol H, Englebert J, Gosseries O, Laureys S, Faymonville ME.   +10 more
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Virtual mortality and near-death experience after a prolonged exposure in a shared virtual reality may lead to positive life-attitude changes. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2018
Mortality is an obvious if uncomfortable part of the human condition, yet it is impossible to study its impact on anyone who experiences it. Reports of phenomena associated with death such as out-of-the-body (OBE) and near death experiences (NDE) can ...
Barberia I, Oliva R, Bourdin P, Slater M.   +3 more
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Near-Death Experiences [PDF]

The Lancet, 1996
Reactions to claims of near-death experiences (NDE) range from the popular view that this must be evidence for life after death, to outright rejection of the experiences as, at best, drug induced hallucinations or, at worse, pure invention. Twenty years, and much research, later, it is clear that neither extreme is correct.
Susan Blackmore
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Near death experience: neuroscience perspective. [PDF]

Croat Med J, 2015
The cycle of life starts with conception and progresses to birth, maturity, old age, and death. We know a significant amount about what happens during most of these stages; however, the final step, death, defies many of our attempts to study and ...
Konopka LM.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Explanation of near-death experiences: a systematic analysis of case reports and qualitative research

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Background and objectiveSome individuals report a near-death experience (NDE) after a life-threatening crisis, which refers to a range of subjective experiences related to impending death.
Amirhossein Hashemi, Ali Akbar Oroojan, Maryam Rassouli, Hadis Ashrafizadeh   +3 more
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Incidence of near-death experiences in patients surviving a prolonged critical illness and their long-term impact: a prospective observational study

Critical Care, 2023
Background So far, the few prospective studies on near-death experience (NDE) were carried out only in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with homogeneous aetiologies, such as cardiac arrest or trauma survivors.
Anne-Françoise Rousseau, Laurence Dams, Quentin Massart, Laila Choquer, Héléna Cassol, Steven Laureys, Benoit Misset, Nadia Dardenne, Olivia Gosseries, Charlotte Martial   +9 more
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The Near-Death Experience: A Reality Check?

Humanities, 2016
This paper critically reviews assertions that near-death and out-of-body experiences (ND/OBE) offer proof of extra-corporeal existence when the brain is supposedly “dead”.
Michael N. Marsh
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Losing the Self in Near-Death Experiences: The Experience of Ego-Dissolution

Brain Sciences, 2021
Many people who have had a near-death experience (NDE) describe, as part of it, a disturbed sense of having a “distinct self”. However, no empirical studies have been conducted to explore the frequency or intensity of these effects.
Charlotte Martial, Géraldine Fontaine, Olivia Gosseries, Robin Carhart-Harris, Christopher Timmermann, Steven Laureys, Héléna Cassol   +6 more
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The intertwining of death and life: a hermeneutic phenomenological investigation of near-death experiences among coma survivors [PDF]

BMC Psychology
Background Death is an experience that every human being faces. As such, the near-death experience (NDE) has been a topic of interest to humanity for millennia.
Hajar Behzadi, Mohammad Farzollah Abbasi, Sally Pezaro, Marjan Mardani-Hamooleh, Hashim Hamid Shabeeb   +4 more
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Comparison of psychedelic and near-death or other non-ordinary experiences in changing attitudes about death and dying.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Both psychedelic drug experiences and near-death experiences can occasion changes in perspectives on death and dying, but there have been few direct comparisons of these phenomena.
Mary M Sweeney, Sandeep Nayak, Ethan S Hurwitz, Lisa N Mitchell, T Cody Swift, Roland R Griffiths   +5 more
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