What Causes Near-Death Experiences?

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The light at the end of the tunnel, the peacefulness, your life flashing before your eyes—it's all been documented thoroughly in pop culture. What usually gets left out, though, are the potential scientific explanations for what happens to your brain during a brush with death. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Inerri, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, سلطان الخليفي, Nicholas Smith, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Charles George ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.m.horizonresearch.org/sdarticle.pdf https://afanporsaber.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/The-near-death-experience-scale.-Construction-reliability-and-validity.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sherman_Lee2/publication/7172977_Does_the_arousal_system_contribute_to_near_death_experience/links/53d7c52d0cf2a19eee7fcf9a/Does-the-arousal-system-contribute-to-near-death-experience.pdf http://www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-9572%2814%2900739-4/abstract https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Harvey_Irwin/publica

Published 2017-10-23 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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