Clues About Consciousness from Dementia Research
Andrew Peterson, brain, Cait Kearney, Canada, consciousness, deeply forgetful, dementia, Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People, euthanasia, lucidity, Medicine, memory, neurobiology, neurodegenerative diseases, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, paradoxical lucidity, Parnia Lab, Penn Memory Center, Stephen Post, Stony Brook University
The phenomenon is called "paradoxical lucidity" because it is unexpected and we know very little about its causes. Source