Monthly Archives: May 2020

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Are animals conscious?

Meet Maggie. She lives in LA. She recently noticed that her roommate, Milda, is very stressed out. Working long hours at home, due to the pandemic lock-down, has started to wear at Milda’s nerves. So, […]

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Consciousness can be quantified (? quantized)

        An individual who has suffered an occipital cortical lesion has lost a portion of the visual field in which that person exists. Usually this person is not aware of the deficit. […]

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Consciousness

       In the spring of 1996, I was exercising in the basement on my stationary bicycle. I had a knee injury which prohibited other types of physical sport activities. Taking care of the […]

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Contributing to the care of children with cerebral palsy

Although I retired from clinical practice a decade ago, it is truly gratifying that I am still being called upon to assist researchers who care for children with severe cerebral palsy. PLOS ONE had requested […]

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Neurotheology: revisited

Given that all gallery and museum exhibits are now virtual, Matthew Dean, the Director of the University Chapels at the University of Chicago, asked me to prepare a set of images revisiting my first art […]

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