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ArticleScientific reports2025

Local field potential changes during euthanasia may parallel with near death experience.

Julieta Trejo, Kaitlin M Killian, Zhen Wang, Yuan B Peng

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Julieta TrejoDepartment of Psychology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 501 S Nedderman Dr, Arlington, TX, 76019-0528, USA.
Kaitlin M KillianDepartment of Psychology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 501 S Nedderman Dr, Arlington, TX, 76019-0528, USA.
Zhen WangDepartment of Psychology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 501 S Nedderman Dr, Arlington, TX, 76019-0528, USA.
Yuan B PengDepartment of Psychology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 501 S Nedderman Dr, Arlington, TX, 76019-0528, USA. ypeng@uta.edu.

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Abstract

A global experience that every human life meets is death. For several decades, individuals have reported their unique encounters with near-death experience (NDE), which has raised many unanswered questions. In the present experiment, we utilize continuous local field potential (LFP) during the euthanasia process to show the dynamic changes of frequency band power in four distinct regions of the rat brain from intracranially implanted electrodes: the right anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), right thalamus (Po), left trigeminal ganglion (TG), and the right primary visual cortex (V1M). At the end of a separate migraine study, two groups of rats underwent the euthanasia process: freely-moving and anesthetized. The findings from the current study indicate that (1) in the freely-moving group, a rebound spike in LFP was observed in all five frequency bands 3-minutes after CO

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BrainDeathEuthanasiaEuthanasia, AnimalAnimalsGyrus CinguliMaleRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyThalamusDying brainLocal field potentialNear-death experienceOut-of-body experiencePower spectral changes

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PMID40180991
PMCPMC11968838

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