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This is Discovery from the BBC. I'm Jimel Killelli and in today's program I'm in conversation with a leading scientist about their life and research. Welcome to the life scientific.

Neuroscientist Adrian Owen has spent much of his career exploring the grey zone, as he calls it,

a realm of consciousness inhabited by people with severe brain injuries who are unable to respond to the world around

them and are assumed to be unaware. But a chance discovery led him to question this.

Could some of these patients in fact be aware and conscious even though they don't

appear to be and he's discovered that yes some are trapped inside their bodies

listening to what's going on with thoughts and emotions much like the rest of us.

This emerging field of science has implications not only for the patience but for philosophy

and the law, so it's perhaps not surprising that Adrian's work has often forced him into the

media spotlight. A British scientist he now heads up a research program at Western

University in Canada dedicated to reaching people in this grey zone.

Professor Adrian Owen, welcome to the life scientific.

Thank you.

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