Verlässt unser Geist unseren Körper, wenn wir sterben? Sind außerkörperliche Erfahrungen (out-of-body experiences) reale Ereignisse oder nur eine Illusion unseres Gehirns? In einer der bislang aufwendigsten und verrücktesten Studien zu diesem Thema wollen Forscher diese Frage endgültig klären…

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Studien (nur kleine Auswahl):

Blanke, O., Faivre, N., & Dieguez, S. (2016). Leaving body and life behind: Out-of-body and near-death experience. In The neurology of conciousness (pp. 323-347). Academic Press.

Metzinger, T. (2005). Out-of-body experiences as the origin of the concept of a’soul’. Mind and Matter, 3(1), 57-84.

Michael, P., Luke, D., & Robinson, O. (2023). This is your brain on death: a comparative analysis of a near-death experience and subsequent 5-Methoxy-DMT experience. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1083361.

Parnia, S., & Fenwick, P. (2002). Near death experiences in cardiac arrest: visions of a dying brain or visions of a new science of consciousness. Resuscitation, 52(1), 5-11.

Parnia, S., Shirazi, T. K., Patel, J., Tran, L., Sinha, N., O’Neill, C., … & Deakin, C. D. (2023). AWAreness during REsuscitation-II: A multi-center study of consciousness and awareness in cardiac arrest. Resuscitation, 191, 109903.

Parnia, S., Spearpoint, K., De Vos, G., Fenwick, P., Goldberg, D., Yang, J., … & Schoenfeld, E. R. (2014). AWARE—AWAreness during REsuscitation—A prospective study. Resuscitation, 85(12), 1799-1805.

Sinha, N., & Parnia, S. (2017). Monitoring the brain after cardiac arrest: a new era. Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 17, 1-11.