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Nature 448, 539-540 (2 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/448539a; Published online 1 August 2007
Neurology: An awakening
Michael N. Shadlen1 & Roozbeh Kiani1
Abstract
Neuroscientists and engineers are developing ways to help patients overcome paralysis and stroke. But what about mental function itself? Can medical intervention restore consciousness?
Jean-Paul Sartre wrote1: "In one sense choice is possible, but what is not possible is not to choose." To the neurologist, however, gaining consciousness is a decision of the unconscious brain to make choices.
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