Newsgroup: it.discussioni.misteri
Titolo: Near death experience

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/DrJohnson/GMA020108Near_death_experie
nces.html
Nulla di particolarmente sconvolgente: hanno verificato che le descrizioni
delle esperienze di 'pre' morte coincidono, anche se non si può dire nulla
su cosa esattamente significhi.
saluti,
Peltio

su cosa esattamente significhi.
L'articolo originale, apparso sulla rivista medica britannica "The
Lancet" cui fa riferimento la notizia/commento da te postata era gia'
stato segnalato da A. Calvelli il 20.12 scorso.
L'articolo 
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van Lommel, P., van Wees, R., Meyers, V., & Elfferich, I. (2001).
Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective
study in the Netherlands. Lancet 358, 2039-2045
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Some people report a near-death experience (NDE) after a
life-threatening crisis. We aimed to establish the cause of this
experience and assess factors that affected its frequency, depth, and
content. 
METHODS: In a prospective study, we included 344 consecutive cardiac
patients who were successfully resuscitated after cardiac arrest in
ten Dutch hospitals. We compared demographic, medical,
pharmacological, and psychological data between patients who reported
NDE and patients who did not (controls) after resuscitation. In a
longitudinal study of life changes after NDE, we compared the groups 2
and 8 years later. 
FINDINGS: 62 patients (18%) reported NDE, of whom 41 (12%) described a
core experience. Occurrence of the experience was not associated with
duration of cardiac arrest or unconsciousness, medication, or fear of
death before cardiac arrest. Frequency of NDE was affected by how we
defined NDE, the prospective nature of the research in older cardiac
patients, age, surviving cardiac arrest in first myocardial
infarction, more than one cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) during
stay in hospital, previous NDE, and memory problems after prolonged
CPR. Depth of the experience was affected by sex, surviving CPR
outside hospital, and fear before cardiac arrest. Significantly more
patients who had an NDE, especially a deep experience, died within 30
days of CPR (p<0.0001). The process of transformation after NDE took
several years, and differed from those of patients who survived
cardiac arrest without NDE. 
INTERPRETATION: We do not know why so few cardiac patients report NDE
after CPR, although age plays a part. With a purely physiological
explanation such as cerebral anoxia for the experience, most patients
who have been clinically dead should report one.
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rivista medica, all'url 
http://www.lancet.com/
Ugualmente disponibile gratutitamente e' il commento della ricerca a
firma dello psicologo Christopher C. French (responsabile
dell'Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit del Goldsmiths College di
Londra, nonche' codirettore della rivista britannica "The Skeptic")
coi seguenti dati:
French, C. C. (2001). Dying to know the truth: visions of a dying
brain, or false memories? Lancet 358, 2010-2011.
Saluti zetetici,
Roberto 

 stato segnalato da A. Calvelli il 20.12 scorso.
Ops,
scusate, credevo fosse un ulteriore studio.
Mi sono fatto ingannare dai tempi di pubblicazione (dell'articolo da me
citato) e dalla sclerosi che si mangia la mia memoria.
saluti,
Peltio