It was one of the great “eureka” moments in the history of neuroscience, caught on film as it was taking place in London, Ont.
The patient, Scott Routley, was severely brain-injured in 1999 after being hit by a police car. Given only two years to live at that time, he had already far exceeded medical augury, but the doctors who had examined him for more than a dozen years could find no signs of awareness in him.
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