Fractures and Bindings of Consciousness
By Mark D. Holmes, Don M. Tucker
Observing how awareness breaks down in epileptic seizures provides clues to its normal workings in the brain
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January-February 2011
Volume 99, Number 1
Page 30
DOI: 10.1511/2011.88.30
Every second, our brains take feedback from the world and provide us with a sense of consciousness: awareness of what we are doing and what we have just done. How this process works in the brain is no simple matter. But sometimes examining how a process fails—as consciousness does in people afflicted with epilepsy—enlightens us to how it works.
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