Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pulmonary embolism was determined to be the immediate cause of death for legendary actress Catherine O'Hara. Dr. Bindu Akkanti ...

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 ...

Understanding near-death experiences In their new paper, Greyson and Pehlivanova outline many facets of NDEs that the NEPTUNE model—and neurophysiology more broadly—still cannot explain. For example, ...

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