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Science 8 September 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5792, pp. 1395 - 1396
DOI: 10.1126/science.1132881
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Perspectives

PSYCHOLOGY:
Is She Conscious?

Lionel Naccache

Brain imaging reveals unexpected activity in a patient clinically diagnosed as being in a vegetative state, raising questions about the properties of consciousness.

The author is in the Clinical Neurophysiology Department, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, 75013 France and in the Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit INSERM, Orsay, 91401 France. E-mail: lionel.naccache{at}wanadoo.fr

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