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BIBLIOGRAPHY
CARDIAC ARREST, RESUSCITATION, AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Dreier, Jens P., Sebastian Major, Brandon Foreman, et al. “Terminal Spreading Depolarization and Electrical Silence in Death of Human Cerebral Cortex.” Annals of Neurology 83, no. 2 (2018): 295–310. DOI: 10.1002/ana.25147.
Parnia, Sam, Ken Spearpoint, Gabriele de Vos, et al. “AWARE—AWAreness during REsuscitation—A Prospective Study.” Resuscitation 85, no. 12 (2014): 1799–1805. DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.09.004.
Parnia, Sam, Tara Keshavarz Shirazi, Jignesh Patel, et al. “AWAreness during REsuscitation—II: A Multi-Center Study of Consciousness and Awareness in Cardiac Arrest.” Resuscitation 191 (2023): 109903. DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2023.109903.
West, Rebecca L., Quentin Otto, Ian R. Drennan, Sarah Rudd, Bernd W. Böttiger, Sam Parnia, and Jasmeet Soar. “CPR-Related Cognitive Activity, Consciousness, Awareness and Recall, and Its Management: A Scoping Review.” Resuscitation Plus 10 (2022): 100241. DOI: 10.1016/j.resplu.2022.100241.
van Lommel, Pim, Ruud van Wees, Vincent Meyers, and Ingrid Elfferich. “Near-Death Experience in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest: A Prospective Study in the Netherlands.” The Lancet 358, no. 9298 (2001): 2039–2045. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(01)07100-8.
Greyson, Bruce. “The Near-Death Experience Scale: Construction, Reliability, and Validity.” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 171, no. 6 (1983): 369–375. DOI: 10.1097/00005053-198306000-00007.
THE DYING BRAIN
Vicente, Raul, Michael Rizzuto, Can Sarica, et al. “Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain.” Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 14 (2022): 813531. DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.813531.
Greyson, Bruce, Pim van Lommel, and Peter Fenwick. “Commentary: Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain.” Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 14 (2022): 899491. DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.899491.
Xu, Gang, Temenuzhka Mihaylova, Duan Li, et al. “Surge of Neurophysiological Coupling and Connectivity of Gamma Oscillations in the Dying Human Brain.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, no. 19 (2023): e2216268120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2216268120.
Martial, Charlotte, Pauline Fritz, Olivia Gosseries, et al. “A Neuroscientific Model of Near-Death Experiences.” Nature Reviews Neurology 21 (2025): 297–311. DOI: 10.1038/s41582-025-01072-z.
O’Grady, Greg, and Chris Varghese. “Limitations of Neurocentric Models for Near-Death Experiences.” Nature Reviews Neurology 21 (2025): 461. DOI: 10.1038/s41582-025-01117-3.
Parnia, Sam, Jignesh Patel, Erik Kulstad, et al. “Recalled Experiences of Death: Need for Empirical Research without Prejudice.” Nature Reviews Neurology 22 (2026): 196–197. DOI: 10.1038/s41582-026-01186-y.
Fritz, Pauline, Charlotte Martial, Olivia Gosseries, et al. “Reply to ‘Recalled Experiences of Death: Need for Empirical Research without Prejudice.’” Nature Reviews Neurology 22 (2026): 198. DOI: 10.1038/s41582-026-01187-x.
PEOPLE WHO CAME BACK AND APPARENT PERCEPTION
Sepioni, Francesco, Antonio Metastasio, and Manuel Monti. “A Distressing Near-Death Experience with Veridical Perceptions during Coma: Psychiatric and Clinical Reflections from a Rare Case.” Rivista di Psichiatria 61, no. 1 (2026): 33–36. DOI: 10.1708/4641.46507.
Smit, Rudolf H. “Corroboration of the Dentures Anecdote Involving Veridical Perception in a Near-Death Experience.” Journal of Near-Death Studies 27, no. 1 (2008): 47–61.
Sabom, Michael B. Light & Death: One Doctor’s Fascinating Account of Near-Death Experiences. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998. [Primary published source for the Pam Reynolds account.]
Ebbern, Hayden, Sean Mulligan, and Barry L. Beyerstein. “Maria’s Near-Death Experience: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop.” Skeptical Inquirer 20, no. 4 (1996): 27–33. [Critical investigation of the Maria’s-shoe case.]
Sharp, Kimberly Clark. “The Other Shoe Drops: Commentary on ‘Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?’” Journal of Near-Death Studies 25, no. 4 (2007): 245–250. [Response concerning the Maria’s-shoe controversy.]
EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED NDE-LIKE STATES
Lempert, Thomas, Michael Bauer, and Dieter Schmidt. “Syncope and Near-Death Experience.” The Lancet 344 (1994): 829–830. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(94)92389-2.
Martial, Charlotte, Andrea Piarulli, Olivia Gosseries, Héléna Cassol, Didier Ledoux, Vanessa Charland-Verville, and Steven Laureys. “EEG Signature of Near-Death-Like Experiences during Syncope-Induced Periods of Unresponsiveness.” NeuroImage 298 (2024): 120759. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120759.
Whinnery, James E., and Angela M. Whinnery. “Acceleration-Induced Loss of Consciousness: A Review of 500 Episodes.” Archives of Neurology 47, no. 7 (1990): 764–776. DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1990.00530070058012.
Whinnery, James E. “Psychophysiologic Correlates of Unconsciousness and Near-Death Experiences.” Journal of Near-Death Studies 15, no. 4 (1997): 231–258. DOI: 10.17514/JNDS-1997-15-4-p231-258.
Blanke, Olaf, Stéphanie Ortigue, Theodor Landis, and Margitta Seeck. “Stimulating Illusory Own-Body Perceptions.” Nature 419 (2002): 269–270. DOI: 10.1038/419269a.
Kondziella, Daniel, Jens P. Dreier, and Markus Harboe Olsen. “Prevalence of Near-Death Experiences in People with and without REM Sleep Intrusion.” PeerJ 7 (2019): e7585. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7585.
KETAMINE, DMT, AND NEUROCHEMICAL MODELS
Martial, Charlotte, Héléna Cassol, Vanessa Charland-Verville, et al. “Neurochemical Models of Near-Death Experiences: A Large-Scale Study Based on the Semantic Similarity of Written Reports.” Consciousness and Cognition 69 (2019): 52–69. DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2019.01.011.
Timmermann, Christopher, Leor Roseman, Luke Williams, et al. “DMT Models the Near-Death Experience.” Frontiers in Psychology 9 (2018): 1424. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01424.
LIFE REVIEWS, MEMORY, AND PHENOMENOLOGY
Katz, Judith, Noam Saadon-Grosman, and Shahar Arzy. “The Life Review Experience: Qualitative and Quantitative Characteristics.” Consciousness and Cognition 48 (2017): 76–86. DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2016.10.011.
Thonnard, Marie, Vanessa Charland-Verville, Serge Brédart, et al. “Characteristics of Near-Death Experiences Memories as Compared to Real and Imagined Events Memories.” PLOS ONE 8, no. 3 (2013): e57620. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057620.
Cassol, Héléna, Charlotte Martial, Johan Annen, et al. “A Systematic Analysis of Distressing Near-Death Experience Accounts.” Memory 27, no. 8 (2019): 1122–1129. DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2019.1626438.
Bush, Nancy Evans, and Bruce Greyson. “Distressing Near-Death Experiences: The Basics.” Missouri Medicine 111, no. 6 (2014): 486–490.
Greyson, Bruce, and Nancy Evans Bush. “Distressing Near-Death Experiences.” Psychiatry 55, no. 1 (1992): 95–110.
Greyson, Bruce. “Seeing Dead People Not Known to Have Died: ‘Peak in Darien’ Experiences.” Anthropology and Humanism 35, no. 2 (2010): 159–171. DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01064.x.
HYPOTHERMIA, CIRCULATORY ARREST, AND “SUSPENDED ANIMATION”
Stecker, Mark M., Andrew T. Cheung, Alberto Pochettino, et al. “Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest: I. Effects of Cooling on Electroencephalogram and Evoked Potentials.” Annals of Thoracic Surgery 71, no. 1 (2001): 14–21. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)01592-7.
Stecker, Mark M., Andrew T. Cheung, Alberto Pochettino, et al. “Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest: II. Changes in Electroencephalogram and Evoked Potentials during Rewarming.” Annals of Thoracic Surgery 71, no. 1 (2001): 22–28.
Drabek, Tomas, et al. “Induction of Profound Hypothermia for Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation Allows Intact Survival after Cardiac Arrest Resulting from Prolonged Lethal Hemorrhage and Trauma in Dogs.” Circulation (2006). PMID: 16618818.
Wu, Xianren, Tomas Drabek, Samuel A. Tisherman, et al. “Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation with Profound Hypothermia, Oxygen, and Glucose Allows Reliable Neurological Recovery after 3 h of Cardiac Arrest from Rapid Exsanguination in Dogs.” Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 28, no. 2 (2008): 302–311. DOI: 10.1038/sj.jcbfm.9600524.
Tisherman, Samuel A., et al. “Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation for Cardiac Arrest from Trauma.” International Journal of Surgery 33 (2016): 209–212. PMID: 26497780.
ClinicalTrials.gov. “Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation for Cardiac Arrest from Trauma (EPR-CAT).” ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01042015. Trial terminated in 2025; no study results posted.
HISTORICAL AND MYTHOLOGICAL FRAME
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, Act III, Scene I. “The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn no traveller returns.”
Plato. Republic, Book X, 614b–621d. The Myth of Er.
Dalley, Stephanie, trans. Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Revised ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. [For Mesopotamian descent traditions, including Inanna/Ishtar.]
Assmann, Jan. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt. Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. [For Egyptian conceptions of death, Osiris, and postmortem transformation.]
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