October 3-4. 2008
In Durham, North Carolina in the United States
Click here for details 

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new page on the IANDS website with videos and audio files of researchers discussing NDEs and experiencers describing what happened to them. You can access these accounts by clicking on the NDE Video & Audio Page.

On January 23, 2008, a local paper in upstate New York, The Daily Star, published a fascinating story about the case of Dr. Tony Cicoria, a respected surgeon who was hit by lightning in 1994 and had an NDE that included an out-of-body experience. After recovering from his near-death experience, Dr. Cicoria returned to his medical practice and everything seemed back to normal.

Recently a paper was published in the New England Journal of Medicine about electrical stimulation of the brain that seemed to induce an out-of-body experience (OBE), a feature found in many NDEs. The new research is gaining media attention but the conclusions cited in the press are questionable.