Near-Death Experiences in patients with locked-in syndrome: Not always a blissful journey.
Consciousness and Cognition July 1, 2015 Vanessa Charland-Verville, Zulay Lugo, Jean-Pierre Jourdan et al.
Memories of Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) most often are recounted as emotionally positive events. At present, no satisfactory explanatory model exists to fully account for the rich phenomenology of NDEs following a severe acute brain injury. The particular population of patients with locked-in syndrome (LIS) provides a unique opportunity to study NDEs following infratentorial brain lesions. We...