What does dying feel like? By studying patients who’ve suffered near-death experiences, scientists are one step closer to ...

Researchers reviewing near-death experiences and animal experiments claim consciousness may continue after the heart stops, ...

Just before it ceases functioning, the brain may make a last-ditch effort to find unresolved purpose or a reason to stay ...

A researcher in near-death experiences says our definition of 'death' should change.

Researchers have developed a model to explain the science of near-death experiences. Others have challenged it.

The space between life and death has fascinated scientists, mystics, and near-death experiencers for centuries. It’s the strange, elusive in-between — a liminal state the body enters when the heart ...

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 (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 ...

To figure out how people deal with near-death experiences, researchers at the University of Virginia surveyed 167 individuals who said they had one. They were at death’s door and opened a window to a ...

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 ...