Death and Dying
What medical journals would be reliable sources for scientific studies describing what people experience when they "die" and are then brought back to "life?" I saw a short Science News article about a multiyear study done out of the University of Virginia, but the news piece did not reference any published data or paper.
Hi Clifton, Thank you for submitting you question to AskNSDL. Searching for your answer was very interesting. I performed a Google search http://www.google.com ) on the terms: "science news" "university of virginia" "near death" If you perform this search yourself, be sure to place quotation marks "" around the phrases as I've done and put spaces between each phrase. Here is one result that may be the reference you want: "Near death experiences take arresting turn" by Bruce Bower. Science News Online, Week of August 16, 2003. http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20030816/note11ref.asp Another brief reference to it from the LOOK SMART Directory is: http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1200/7_164/107699604/p1/article.jhtml Then, the Discovery Channel Canada's website has another article about Dr. Bruce Greyson's study: http://exn.ca/Templates/Story.asp?ID=2000020454 I also ran two searches on PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's database of citations to millions of biomedical articles from the 1950's to the present at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed In the first search, I looked for articles by Greyson and entered the following string in the search box: greyson b [au] Below are 7 relevant citations: 1: Greyson B. Near-death experiences in a psychiatric outpatient clinic population. Psychiatr Serv. 2003 Dec;54(12):1649-51. PMID: 14645808 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 2: Greyson B. Incidence and correlates of near-death experiences in a cardiac care unit. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2003 Jul-Aug;25(4):269-76. PMID: 12850659 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 3: Greyson B. Posttraumatic stress symptoms following near-death experiences. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2001 Jul;71(3):368-73. PMID: 11495339 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 4: Greyson B. Reasons for living versus reasons for dying. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2000 Summer;30(2):179-80; author reply 182. No abstract available. PMID: 10888058 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 5: Greyson B. Dissociation in people who have near-death experiences: out of their bodies or out of their minds? Lancet. 2000 Feb 5;355(9202):460-3. PMID: 10841127 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 6: Greyson B. Biological aspects of near-death experiences. Perspect Biol Med. 1998 Autumn;42(1):14-32. Review. No abstract available. PMID: 9894355 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 7: Greyson B. The near-death experience as a focus of clinical attention. J Nerv Ment Dis. 1997 May;185(5):327-34. PMID: 9171810 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] In the second PubMed search, I searched on the following terms: "Death"[MeSH] AND "near-death experience" I set the following search limits: English language, the past 10 years and human. I've provided the 9 citations from this PubMed search below: 1: Herren B, Rouse D. A near death experience through a daughter's eyes. Rehabil Nurs. 2000 Sep-Oct;25(5):169. No abstract available. PMID: 11998081 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 2: van Lommel P, van Wees R, Meyers V, Elfferich I. Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands. Lancet. 2001 Dec 15;358(9298):2039-45. Erratum in: Lancet 2002 Apr 6;359(9313):1254. PMID: 11755611 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 3: Simpson SM. Near death experience: a concept analysis as applied to nursing. J Adv Nurs. 2001 Nov;36(4):520-6. PMID: 11703546 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 4: Nelson HR. The near death experience: observations and reflections from a retired chaplain. J Pastoral Care. 2000 Summer;54(2):159-66. PMID: 11067524 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 5: Greyson B. Dissociation in people who have near-death experiences: out of their bodies or out of their minds? Lancet. 2000 Feb 5;355(9202):460-3. PMID: 10841127 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 6: Greyson B. The near-death experience as a focus of clinical attention. J Nerv Ment Dis. 1997 May;185(5):327-34. PMID: 9171810 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 7: Steinmeijer JH. Near death experience. J Nerv Ment Dis. 1996 Apr;184(4):258. No abstract available. PMID: 8604039 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 8: Orne RM. The meaning of survival: the early aftermath of a near-death experience. Res Nurs Health. 1995 Jun;18(3):239-47. PMID: 7754094 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 9: Sommers MS. The near-death experience following multiple trauma. Crit Care Nurse. 1994 Apr;14(2):62-6. PMID: 7882692 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] I hope this information is helpful to you. If you have trouble deciphering the journal titles, let me know. You can also check with the librarian at your school or public library if you need more resources. Joyce W.