Almost 40 Years Investigating Near-Death Experiences
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease October 29, 2014 Adriana Sleutjes, Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Bruce Greyson 38 citations
Most scholarly publications on near-death experiences (NDEs) are recent, often lack original empirical data, and are concentrated in North America and Western Europe. A review of 266 documents from 1945 to 2013 found a predominance of opinion articles, reviews, and phenomenological descriptions, with the oldest from 1977. Since 2000, longitudinal and cross-sectional studies have increased, along with diversification in publishing countries and discussions of mind-brain implications. Future research should aim for greater cultural diversity and test explanatory hypotheses with high-quality empirical data.