Terminal lucidity: A review and a case collection
Michael Nahm, Bruce Greyson, et al. · 2012 · Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 55(1), 138–142
This source is used as supports evidence across 2 linked claims and 6 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Review and case-collection paper that defined terminal lucidity as a research category and surveyed the historical literature.
How this source is used on the map
The defining paper for terminal lucidity as a serious clinical phenomenon worth studying.
Citation record
- Authors
- Michael Nahm, Bruce Greyson, et al.
- Year
- 2012
- Publication
- Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 55(1), 138–142
- Source type
- Review
- Map role
- supports
- Credibility level
- primary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.archger.2011.06.031
- PubMed
- Not recorded
- Not recorded
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.
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A comparative guide to the strongest survival-adjacent evidence: NDEs, terminal lucidity, deathbed visions, past-life memories, mediumship, and after-death communication.
A comparative guide to materialism, dualism, panpsychism, idealism, filter theories, and consciousness-first interpretations.
A balanced synthesis of the strongest and weakest evidence across afterlife, consciousness, reincarnation, mystical, psi, and practice claims.
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The institutional home for serious empirical work on past-life memories and survival-related anomalies.
A strong neuroscience anchor for the brain-dependence side of the consciousness cluster, while still admitting unresolved problems.
The leading academic group publishing on cases of children claiming past-life memories and on Greyson's NDE work.
The reference for what mind-body dualism means and why most contemporary philosophers reject it.
Pulls together the conceptual frameworks behind every empirical claim about consciousness.
Useful authority source for careful language: it separates recalled experiences of death from broad spiritual conclusions and lays out better future-study standards.