Terminal Lucidity, Brain Injury, and the Self
Briefly

"If the integrity of my personhood is so dependent on the integrity of my brain function, does this not also clearly imply that myself, my mind, my personality are no more than products of my brain?"
"Terminal lucidity challenges orthodoxy by asking how a person with severe and prolonged brain damage... can suddenly recognize people, converse with them, and be the self they were before illness?"
"Some nurses call it 'the rally'; others, 'the last hurrah.' In other countries, traditional names exist for it."
"Researchers hypothesize that this mechanism may explain terminal lucidity. But you cannot equate gamma-bu..."
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