Terminal lucidity: A review and a case collection
Michael Nahm, Bruce Greyson, et al. · 2012 · Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 55(1), 138–142
Summary
Review and case-collection paper that defined terminal lucidity as a research category and surveyed the historical literature.
Why it matters here
The defining paper for terminal lucidity as a serious clinical phenomenon worth studying.
Linked claims
The brain as transducer, not source — proposed by James, Bergson, Huxley. Compatible with neural correlates but harder to falsify.
Brief return of clear cognition shortly before death in patients with severe dementia or brain injury — observed across hospice care.
Related evidence hubs
What consciousness is, how it relates to brains, and whether it's basic to reality.
The nature of subjective experience.
Mind–brain relation, qualia, intentionality.
Whether anything of mind continues.
Evidence around dying, near-death experience, and what (if anything) continues.
Brief return of clear cognition before death.