Explore our list of peer-reviewed research, including the Journal of Near-Death Studies, research papers, and our index to periodical literature dating back to the 19th century.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
IANDS publishes the Journal of Near-Death Studies where all full-text articles over one year old are available at no cost by clicking on the article in the “Past Issues” listings.
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A number of selected, important papers or paper abstracts are linked below. Additional research may be found on Google Scholar and PubMed.
Near-Death Experiences
Long-term transformational effects of near-death experiences, Jeffrey Long, MD, and Marjorie Woollacott. PhD., Explore (NY), 2024.
AWAreness during REsuscitation – II: A multi-center study of consciousness and awareness in cardiac arrest, Sam Parnia, MD, et al., Resuscitation, 2023.
“My heart sang within me, and I was glad to be dead”: The reception of near-death experiences across the cultures of Oceania, Gregory Shushan, PhD, Journal of Near-Death Studies, 2018.
“He should stay in the grave”: Cultural patterns in the interpretation of near-death experiences in African traditional religions, Gregory Shushan, PhD, Journal of Near-Death Studies, 2017.
“The Sun told me I would be restored to life”: Native American near-death experiences, shamanism, and religious revitalization movements, Gregory Shushan, PhD, Journal of Near-Death Studies, 2016.
Near-death experiences in non-life-threatening events and coma of different etiologies, Vanessa Charland-Verville, PhD, et al. Frontiers of Human Neuroscience, 2014.
AWARE—AWAreness during REsuscitation—A prospective study, Sam Parnia, MD, et al., Resuscitation, 2014
Getting Comfortable With Death & Near-Death Experiences: Near-Death Experiences: An Essay in Medicine & Philosophy, Raymond Moody, MD, Missouri Medicine, 2013
Near-death experiences: the experience of the self as real and not as an illusion, Pim van Lommel, MD, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2011.
Near-Death Experiences and Spirituality, Bruce Greyson, MD, Journal of Religion and Science, 2006
Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: A prospective study in the Netherlands, Pim van Lommel, MD, et al., The Lancet, 2001
The Near-Death Experience Scale: Construction, reliability, and validity, Bruce Greyson, MD, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1983
Shared Death Experiences
Shared death experience: A multicultural survey, Patrizio Tressoldi, PhD, et al., American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2023
Shared death experiences: A little-known type of end-of-life phenomena reported by caregivers and loved ones, Shared Crossing Research Initiative, American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care, 2021.
Terminal Lucidity
Terminal Lucidity in a Pediatric Oncology Clinic, Philip Roehrs, MD, et al., Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2024.
The importance of the exceptional in tackling riddles of consciousness and unusual episodes of lucidity, Michael Nahm, PhD, Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 2022
Spontaneous remission of dementia before death: Results from a study on paradoxical lucidity, Alexander Batthyány, PhD, and Bruce Greyson, MD, Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research and Practice, 2021
The death of Anna Katharina Ehmer: A case study in terminal lucidity, Michael Nahm, PhD, and Bruce Greyson, MD, Omega Journal of Death and Dying, 2014
Terminal lucidity: A review and a case collection – ScienceDirect, Michael Nahm, PhD, et al., Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 2012.
Terminal lucidity in patients with chronic schizophrenia and dementia: A survey of the literature, Michael Nahm, PhD, and Bruce Greyson, MD, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2009
After-Death Communication
Empirically-based best estimates of after-death communication (ADC) phenomena: A systematic review of research, Jenny Streit-Horn, PhD, et al., Journal of Near-Death Studies, 2022.
Perceptual phenomena associated with spontaneous experiences of after-death communication: Analysis of visual, tactile, auditory and olfactory sensations, Marjorie Woollacott, PhD, et al., Explore, 2021
Comparative effects of Induced After-Death Communication and traditional counselling on grief, Janice Miner Holden, EdD, et al., Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement, 2019.
Near-Death Experiences: Index to the Periodical Literature, 1877-2011
The NDE Index is an invaluable tool for finding almost every article about NDEs published in English between 1877 and 2011. The Index does not contain the actual text of the articles, but tells what has been written and where to find it. Many of the articles are available for free or for purchase on this website, and other reprints can be obtained from libraries and the publishers listed in the Index. Here, you’ll find:
- Complete search information for over 900 articles (author, title, year of publication, journal title, issue number, page numbers): a thorough listing and topics analysis of scholarly articles—and many popular articles—from the first 135 years of the field of near-death studies, with search function by author, keyword, or year
- Abstracts (article summaries) for scholarly journal articles where available
- Categorization of articles by 135 NDE-related topics
- Under each individual citation, a listing of the NDE-related topics addressed in the article. View a sample
- In a second listing under each topic, a listing of all articles that address that topic View a sample
- In a third listing, citations of all articles by a given author (sole or co-author). View a sample
- Periodic updates
Years in the making, this Index is available as a free benefit to members of IANDS at the Supporting, Professional, and higher membership levels. If you are not an IANDS member, Click here for details about how you can have access to this powerful search tool.
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Researchers without access to free reprints—such as those who are not higher education faculty with online or inter-library loan reprint access—can purchase one reprint of each article from the IANDS office. In either case, researchers can feel confident they have conducted a very thorough review of the available NDE literature through 2011.