Migraine aura, a predictor of near-death experiences in a crowdsourced study
bioRxiv Preprint Server October 21, 2019 Daniel Kondziella, Markus Harboe Olsen, Coline L. Lemale et al. 7 citations preprint
Near-death experiences (NDE) are poorly understood but may involve rapid eye movement (REM) sleep intrusion, a feature of narcolepsy. Because migraine with aura is linked to narcolepsy and REM abnormalities, this study tested whether NDE are more common in people who have migraine with aura.