section_path: Science/Neuroscience/Near-death experience
section_name: Near-death experience
paragraph_text: Near-death experience
  
  Neuroscience research hypothesizes that a near-death experience (an NDE) is a subjective phenomenon resulting from "disturbed bodily multisensory integration" that occurs during life-threatening events. Some researchers of near-death experiences consider such a phenomenon as a challenge to the materialist assumptions about the relationship between mind and brain. Sam Parnia and others have suggested that a mind that is mediated by, but not produced by, the brain is a possible way to explain NDE.