(From left) Bruce Greyson, PhD, and Marieta Pehlivanova, PhD
Bruce Greyson, PhD, Chester F. Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, and Marieta Pehlivanova, PhD, research assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, both part of University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies, spoke with The Washington Post about their research on near-death experiences.
Last year in Nature Reviews Neurology, a team from the University of Liège reviewed nearly 300 studies on near-death experiences—such as out-of-body sensations, moving through a tunnel toward light, and feelings of peace—and proposed a brain-based model called NEPTUNE (neurophysiological evolutionary psychological theory understanding near-death experience).
While calling the model “an admirable strategy,” Drs. Greyson and Pehlivanova wrote that aspects of such experiences cannot be explained solely by brain physiology, and they contended that the NEPTUNE authors omitted evidence that did not support their ideas.
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