India, April 4 -- Researchers at the University Hospital of Liege in Belgium have created the first detailed explanation of what happens in the brain during near-death experiences or NDEs. They published their findings in Nature Reviews Neurology.
To build their model, the team reviewed many previous studies on NDEs. These studies looked at everything from brain chemistry during NDEs to how people later interpreted those experiences. They also examined research on psychedelic drugs like psilocybin (from magic mushrooms) and rare types of seizures that cause intense feelings of joy.
Instead of studying one group of people, the researchers pulled together data from many studies, including those on animals and brain scans from critically ill...