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ArticleMissouri medicine

Getting comfortable with near death experiences. Out of one's mind or beyond the brain? The challenge of interpreting near-death experiences.

Dean Radin

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Article in Missouri medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Semiology and Mechanisms of Near-Death Experiences.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

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1 author.

Dean Radin

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With one exception, near-death experiences (NDEs) may be interpreted as unusual forms of hallucinations associated with the injured or dying brain. The exception involves perceptions described from vantage points outside the body that are later confirmed to be correct and could not have been inferred. Over a century of laboratory studies have investigated whether it is possible in principle for the mind to transcend the physical boundaries of the brain. The cumulative experimental database strongly indicates that it can. It is not clear that this implies the mind is separate from the brain, but it does suggest that a comprehensive explanation for NDEs will require revisions to present scientific assumptions about the brain-mind relationship.

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DeathMind-Body Relations, MetaphysicalParapsychologyAttitude to DeathElectroencephalographyHumansModels, PsychologicalPhilosophy, Medical

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PMID24645294
PMCPMC6179515

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