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A PayPal account is required to send and receive money. This is a podcast extra from nature. I'm Kerry Smith. Every day when we wake up,

we experience a transition. One minute we're asleep, unconscious, we don't follow commands. It's as if there's

nobody home. The next we're aware of our circumstances, our surroundings, we can respond. It's

night and day. But some people, because of injury or accident, end up in a grey zone between

these conscious and unconscious states. In a minimally conscious state, say, where sometimes

patients can signal their awareness through the fog, but sometimes it's as if they're not there.

Or in a persistent vegetative state, where a patient might look like they're awake, maybe they

open their eyes, but they're unaware. Neuroscientist Adrian Owen has dedicated his career to finding out what's going on

in the brain when a patient gets trapped in the grey zone. And shockingly, in as much as 20% of

patients who appear to be entirely vegetative, the brain responds to instructions, just like the brain

of a healthy person. Adrian has written a book about his work and we sat down in the studio to dig into it.

For most of us, meeting someone who's in a vegetative state or a minimally conscious state

is something that is quite hard to imagine and presumably it had to happen to you for the first time as well.

What was that experience like?

It was very strange actually. It was 1997, and it was a patient at Adam Brooks Hospital in Cambridge

who came to us in a vegetative state. And this was, you know, really early days. And the idea of

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