Research Zone

Update on AWARE Study 2009

2009 was a good year for the research collaboration that had been set up and was announced at the US Symposium held in New York in 2008. This was the occasion where the launch of the AWARE Study was announced and throughout the end of 2008 and throughout 2009, we have managed to increase our broad collaboration into the study of the Mind and Brain During Cardiac Arrest and Clinical Death. I am pleased to say that we have now expanded our network both in the UK and in the United States and have also recruited a centre in France. There are also many other centres who are still working on their paperwork in order to be able to join the network of hospitals who are participating in the AWARE Study.

Although the network is continuing to expand, we have had the early part of the study in place since the early part of 2007 and therefore the team is working to be able to collect the data for the last three years with a view to making a preliminary publication and releasing the findings towards the end of this year or in the very early part of 2011.

Many people have written to us and have asked to be updated with the study results, however, as I am sure everyone will understand, we are unable to release data in a piecemeal fashion. We therefore look forward to being able to release the results of our study once the study has been accepted for publication in a major Peer Review Journal.

Science of Near-Death Experience:

Colleague, Jeffrey Long, compiled cases of near death experience that had been sent to him over the years.

Published, January 2010, the book has been featured on some of the major media outlets in the United States including the Today Show as well as on CNN.com and reached the New York Times Bestseller list almost immediately after it was released.

We would like to wish Jeffery Long all the best with his book and his work and we encourage our readers to explore the incredible work that has gone into his book.

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