Neuroscientist Susan Blackmore has contested the findings of NDE-research, and has instead argued in favour of a neurological explanation.

While Meessen suggests possible psychological or neurological explanations for the apparitions he notes, "It is impossible to provide any direct evidence for or against the supernatural origin of apparitions".

These include the idea that there are neurological explanations for learning disabilities.

I don't know anybody who has a good neurological explanation for it, but clearly there's real egocentricity, especially in early adolescence.

Some of his doctors were unable to find an objective neurological explanation for his continuing pain.

This might be a neurological explanation for the finding that homosexual men arise and retire earlier each day than heterosexuals, as it is known that the SCN is involved in modulating human circadian rhythms.

There may be another neurological explanation for dermatillomania: individuals who have dermatillomania have less motor-inhibitory control, but show no sign of difference in cognitive flexibility, when compared to individuals without the condition.

But only recently, as scientists have begun to elucidate the way the human brain reacts to pain, has a neurological explanation for "over-the-counter headaches" begun to emerge.

Mayberg originally considered becoming a psychiatrist, but she didn't like the discipline's resistance at the time (it was the 1970's) to neurological explanations of mood.

Which was impressive, but Frank found himself comforted to have the assertion backed by scientific research and a neurological explanation.