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Are end-stage Alzheimer's patients still conscious?
gpt
this is largely a philosophical question. AD can get to the point (before it outright kills you) where you are unconscious, but there is also the time before then where the patient is not exactly asleep but certainly not there completely either. is that what you call consciousness? what do you base it on? mini mental status exam? EEG findings? you could argue about this forever.