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Do brain interventions to treat disease change the essence of who we are?

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imageBrains are physical organs, but also the seat of something essential about us.Heads via www.shutterstock.com.

These days, most of us accept that minds are dependent on brain function and wouldn’t object to the claim that “You are your brain.” After all, we’ve known for a long time that brains control how we behave, what we...

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