As they near death, some dementia patients recover mental faculties assumed to be long lost. Researchers want to know why.

People with advanced dementia have been known to suddenly recognize loved ones before death. Scientists are now investigating ...

Dementia is often described as "the long goodbye." Although the person is still alive, dementia slowly and irreversibly chips away at their memories and the qualities that make someone "them." ...

Last year, I received a phone call telling me that my mother was seriously ill and would probably pass away in the next few hours. I rushed to the hospital and found my mum deeply unconscious, in a ...

“…the Socrates who is now conversing and arranging the details of his argument is really I; [Crito] thinks I am the one whom he will presently see as a corpse ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

Charles Murray doesn’t need my help debating Steven Pinker, but as the author of the principal book on terminal lucidity, I offer a few observations (Letters, Nov. 1). Contrary to Mr. Pinker, grieving ...

Explore the phenomenon of terminal lucidity through Anna Katharina Ehmer's astonishing deathbed experience. Discover what this means for neuroscience. Can sick people gain mental clarity just before ...