Below is the Index outline of approximately 140 NDE-related topics that can be used to search the NDE Research Index for all articles that address a particular topic.
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Italics below indicate general topic categories that do not actually appear in the Index; regular font indicates categories that do actually appear. "NOS" means "not otherwise specified."
Accounts of NDEs
Accounts of NDEs—Autobiographical
Accounts of NDEs—Biographical, Cases
Aftereffects of NDEs
Aftereffects of NDEs—Cognitive
Aftereffects of NDEs—Emotional
Aftereffects of NDEs—Orientation to Death (attitudes, values, behaviors toward death, including suicide attitudes)
Aftereffects of NDEs—Orientation to Life (attitudes, values, behaviors toward life)
Aftereffects of NDEs—Out-of-Body Experiences
Aftereffects of NDEs—Paranormal Phenomena (intuition, déjà vu, ESP [clairvoyance, telepathy, psychokinesis, seeing auras])
Aftereffects of NDEs—Physical Changes (for example, sensations, drug sensitivity)
Aftereffects of NDEs—Religion
Aftereffects of NDEs—Sense of Self, Psychological and Physical (for example, self-concept, relationship to body)
Aftereffects of NDEs NOS
Afterlife, Belief in
Afterlife, NDEers’ Descriptions of
Altered States and NDEs (including altered states of consciousness)
Animals and NDEs (including pets)
Artificial Intelligence and NDEs
Birth Trauma and NDEs
Characteristics of NDErs
Characteristics of NDErs—Age
Characteristics of NDErs—Age, Adults
Characteristics of NDErs—Age, Children-Adolescents
Characteristics of NDErs—Age NOS
Characteristics of NDErs—Education Level
Characteristics of NDErs—Gender
Characteristics of NDErs—Marital Status
Characteristics of NDErs—Occupation
Characteristics of NDErs—Psychic Abilities
Characteristics of NDErs—Psychological Profile
Characteristics of NDErs—Religious Affiliations
Characteristics of NDErs—Socioeconomic Status
Characteristics of NDErs—Trauma and Abuse (history of)
Characteristics of NDErs NOS
Characteristics of NDEs (Phenomena during)
Characteristics of NDEs—Autoscopy, Out-of-Body
Characteristics of NDEs—Emotions (including affective quality)
Characteristics of NDEs—Emotions, Distressing
Characteristics of NDEs—Emotions, Pleasurable (feelings of being “home,” unconditional love)
Characteristics of NDEs—Emotions NOS
Characteristics of NDEs—Encountering Beings
Characteristics of NDEs—Encountering Beings, Deceased or Living
Characteristics of NDEs—Encountering Beings, Spiritual (including demons)
Characteristics of NDEs—Encountering Beings NOS
Characteristics of NDEs—Increased Knowledge, Thoughts
Characteristics of NDEs—Life Review
Characteristics of NDEs—Light, Mystical
Characteristics of NDEs—Other-Worldly Environments
Characteristics of NDEs—Parapsychological Phenomena
Characteristics of NDEs—Parapsychological Phenomena, ESP (includes telepathy and clairvoyance)
Characteristics of NDEs—Parapsychological Phenomena, Precognition (includes prophecy)
Characteristics of NDEs—Parapsychological Phenomena NOS
Characteristics of NDEs—Perception of Time
Characteristics of NDEs—Return (including barriers)
Characteristics of NDEs—Return, Involuntary (told)
Characteristics of NDEs—Return, Voluntary (decision)
Characteristics of NDEs—Return NOS
Characteristics of NDEs—Sensory
Characteristics of NDEs—Sensory, Kinesthetic (including movement, warmth, pain)
Characteristics of NDEs—Sensory, Smell
Characteristics of NDEs—Sensory, Sound
Characteristics of NDEs—Sensory, Sound, Hearing (including internal voices)
Characteristics of NDEs—Sensory, Sound, Music
Characteristics of NDEs—Sensory, Sound NOS
Characteristics of NDEs—Sensory, Vision
Characteristics of NDEs—Sensory NOS
Characteristics of NDEs—Tunnel Experiences
Characteristics of NDEs NOS
Circumstances of NDEs
Circumstances of NDEs—Accident
Circumstances of NDEs—Combat-Related
Circumstances of NDEs—Consciousness and Unconsciousness
Circumstances of NDEs—Hospital
Circumstances of NDEs—Illness
Circumstances of NDEs—Induced Chemically
Circumstances of NDEs—Induced Non-chemically
Circumstances of NDEs—Stress
Circumstances of NDEs—Suicide
Circumstances of NDEs—Time Elapse
Circumstances of NDEs NOS
Corroborative NDEs (see Veridical Perception)
Counseling NDErs (before, during, and after)
Cross-Cultural NDEs (outside the U.S.)
Cultural, Social Influences on NDEs
Definition of NDEs
Disabilities and NDEs (for example, blind, deaf, paraplegic)
Disclosure of NDEs
Dreams and NDEs
Education about NDEs
Evolution and NDEs (of the species and social change)
Explanations of NDEs
Explanations of NDEs—Parapsychological
Explanations of NDEs—Philosophical
Explanations of NDEs—Physiological
Explanations of NDEs—Physiological, Anoxia
Explanations of NDEs—Physiological, Neurological, Brain
Explanations of NDEs—Physiological NOS
Explanations of NDEs—Psychological
Explanations of NDEs—Sociological
Explanations of NDEs NOS
Famous People’s NDEs
Healing and NDEs
Healing and NDEs—Physical
Healing and NDEs—Psychological
Health Care Professionals and NDEs
Health Care Professionals and NDEs—Medical
Health Care Professionals and NDEs—Psychological
Historical Perspectives on NDEs
Humor About NDEs
Hypnosis and NDEs
Interpretations of NDEs (personal accounts)
Kundalini and NDEs
Language and NDEs
Literature, Fictional (fictional accounts of NDEs)
Media Treatment of NDEs
Mental Processes and NDEs (including memory)
Methodology in NDE Research (including assessment)
Nearing Death and NDEs
Nearing Death and NDEs—Deathbed Visions
Nearing Death and NDEs NOS
Non-NDErs' Attitude Change after Learning about NDEs
Non-NDErs' Attitudes toward NDEs
Psychopathology and NDEs
Psychopathology and NDEs—Depersonalization
Psychopathology and NDEs—Dissociation
Psychopathology and NDEs—Hallucinations
Psychopathology and NDEs NOS
Psychopharmacology and NDEs
Psychopharmacology and NDEs—Anesthesia
Psychopharmacology and NDEs NOS
Reactions to NDEr—by Family, Spouse
Reincarnation and NDEs
Related Experiences
Related Experiences—NDE-Like
Related Experiences—UFO
Related Experiences NOS
Religion and NDEs
Religion and NDEs—Buddhism
Religion and NDEs—Christianity
Religion and NDEs—Christianity, Mormonism
Religion and NDEs—Hinduism
Religion and NDEs—Indigenous Cultures
Religion and NDEs—Islam (including Sufism)
Religion and NDEs—Judaism (including Hassidism)
Religion and NDEs—Mysticism
Religion and NDEs NOS
Science and NDEs (including physics and natural sciences)
Sensory Deprivation (including NDEs in the blind)
Shamanism and NDEs
Spiritualism and NDEs (as distinguished from spirituality)
Spirituality and NDEs
Thanatology and NDEs
Theories, NDE-Related, Psychological
Theories, NDE-Related, Psychological—Grof
Theories, NDE-Related, Psychological—Jung
Veridical Perception during NDEs (including corroborative NDEs)
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