A new study explains why current brain theories fail to fully explain near-death experiences and consciousness.

An ambitious effort to create a neurophysiological paradigm to explain near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating and often perplexing aspects of people's brushes with death, top ...

Near-death experiences can have lasting, life-changing effects, and new University of Virginia School of Medicine research sheds light on the types of counseling and support that can best help people ...

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Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a widely reported yet poorly understood phenomenon. Though there is no agreed-upon definition of an NDE, it has been described as “profound psychological events with ...

Our brains have been designed through evolution to make it impossible to think of ourselves as not having consciousness, easily leading us down the road of thinking of our minds as being immortal. In ...

Facing death is a core part of making meaning of one’s life. To struggle through this universal contemplation without a ...

In 2006, a man called David Ditchfield was seeing off a friend at a train station near Cambridge, England. He stepped on to the train to help his friend with her luggage and to hug her goodbye, but as ...

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It’s one of humanity’s most enduring mysteries: What happens when we die? Now, a new scientific investigation has taken us a step closer to understanding what may lie beyond the grave, the Daily Mail ...