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Alexander Moreira-Almeida

Alexander Moreira-Almeida, M.D., Ph.D., is psychiatrist, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University Medical Center. Currently, he is Professor of Psychiatry at Federal University of Juiz de Fora School of Medicine (UFJF), Brazil, and Director of the Research Center in Spirituality and Health (NUPES) at UFJF, Brazil.

Spiritism: The Work of Allan Kardec and Its Implications for Spiritual Transformation
Although the current debate on science and spirituality has discussed several important topics, it usually does not touch the scientific investigation of certain claims about the spirit (its existence, survival after bodily death, reincarnation, etc.). However, this was not always the case.