Tag: Sam Parnia

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, body, brain, consciousness, death, delusions, dementia, Denyse O'Leary, Discover Magazine, dreams, family members, hallucinations, hospice workers, illusions, Jordan Kinard, Langone Medical Center, last words, materialists, mind, neuroscience, New York University, rationalism, researchers, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, terminal lucidity}

Excerpt: As Death Approaches, a Sudden Light

_{Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
June 10, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Needless to say, such lucid episodes imply that the mind is more than the disjointed activities of a failing brain. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 26, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, brain function, cardiac arrest, clinical death, Closer to Truth, consciousness, death, doctors, Lord Kelvin, Lucid Dying, near-death experiences, Nobel Prize, Psyche, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Sam Parnia, skepticism, soul}

Soul Survives Death? ER Doc Faces Skepticism

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 26, 2024

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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In discussion with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Dr. Sam Parnia stuck to his clearly defined evidence, avoiding religious digressions. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 1, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, brain function, Bruce Greyson, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Grossman School of Medicine, human soul, Lucid Dying, materialism, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, NYU, Sam Parnia, Science Daily, Scientific American, Sean Carroll, The Immortal Mind}

Scientists Ask: Does the Soul Survive Death?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 1, 2024

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Gradually, medical findings about what happens to the mind around the time of death are undermining assumptions that the soul dies with the body. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 7, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Bruce Greyson, Closer to Truth, death, eliminationism, immortality, materialism, Michael Egnor, naturalism, physicalism, Psyche, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Sam Parnia, soul, The Immortal Mind}

Mind Is Not Annihilated at Death, ER Doc Says

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 7, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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“The evidence so far suggests that the entity we call the human mind… does not become annihilated after a person has died.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 29, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain damage, brains, circulation, death, emergency room, Lucid Dying, Nature (journal), neuroscience, nutrients, oxygen, oxygenation, pigs, resuscitation, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, Yale University}

Pig Brains Thought Dead May Be Revived

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 29, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Pigs are considered useful biomedical models for humans so the implications of such studies sent waves through the field of resuscitation — and bioethics. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 25, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain cells, cardiac arrest, consciousness, dogmatism, Johns Hopkins University, Lucid Dying, mind, near-death experiences, neurology, New York University, psychiatry, resuscitation, Sam Parnia, Sean Carroll}

Heart Attack Doctor: Science Shows Death Is Not the End

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 25, 2024

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Sam Parnia began by wondering how brain cells can give rise to thoughts. He came to see that the message “from science” was not what he had been led to expect. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 18, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, animals, brain, Charlotte Martial, Current Biology, Darwinian evolution, ethology, Grossman School of Medicine, humans, near-death experiences, neuroscience, opossum, Rachel Nuwer, Sam Parnia, Scientific American}

Near-Death Experiences as Possum Tales

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 18, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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The authors provide a number of accounts from people who experienced altered consciousness when under attack by large animals. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 17, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Charlotte Martial, death, drugs, dying, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Rachel Nuwer, resuscitation, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, Steve Taylor}

Near-Death Experiences Compared to Drug Trips

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 17, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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There is an effort underway to fully naturalize NDEs — that is, to make them something that just happens to the traumatized brain. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 19, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, consciousness, cosmic fine-tuning, CPR, Dartmouth College, Durham University, Elsevier, hospitals, Marcelo Gleiser, near-death experiences, NYU, persistent vegetative state, Philip Goff, Rachel Nuwer, researchers, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, wrongthink}

Study: Brain Is Still Active After Death

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 19, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Obviously, these experiences point to something that is irrelevant to claims about evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 8, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, brain activity, consciousness, CPR, death, evolution, faith, Grossman School of Medicine, heart, life after death, materialism, natural selection, near-death experiences, neonatal intensive care, New York University, perception, physicians, Sam Parnia, theology, thinking}

Does a New Scientific Study Offer Evidence of Life after Death?

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 8, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Medicine

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Maybe there is no evolutionary explanation. There is certainly no discernible natural-selection benefit. Read More ›