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How science found a way to help coma patients communicate

26 mins | Sep 20, 2017

Scott was in a coma but when asked to imagine playing a game of tennis, his mind lit up. The neuroscientist Adrian Owen describes his ground-breaking conversations with Scott and how science found a way to help coma patients communicate.

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