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When brain imaging documents the loss of self

My mother's dementia brain scan shows severe shrinkage and I keep wondering if she can sense that her mind is disappearing or if that mercy is already gone.

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Neurological evidence of cognitive decline raises questions about consciousness and suffering that medicine cannot answer.

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“Where Are You with Medical imaging and what it shows?”

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