Dr. Bruce Greyson

Dr. Bruce Greyson

Dr. Bruce Greyson is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the UVA School of Medicine. He served on the medical school faculty at the Universities of Michigan, Connecticut, and Virginia. He was a co-founder and President of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, and Editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies. His award-winning research led him to become a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and to be invited by the Dalai Lama to participate in a dialogue between Western scientists and Buddhist monks in India.

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3 min
Biologist Tyler Volk PhD, psychiatrist Bruce Greyson MD, and palliative care physician BJ Miller MD, reveal how confronting mortality can improve the way we live.
Unlikely Collaborators
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7 min
A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.
life after near death experiences
Near death experiences change people’s lives - and not always for the better.
Are dreams, hallucinations, and near death experiences all connected?
Is there an afterlife
What if death isn’t the end? NDEs may complicate what science teaches us about death and consciousness.
Near death experiences
A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.