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What makes us so certain we’re alive?

Former clinical neuropsychologist Dr Paul Broks and producer Jolyon Jenkins discuss a patient with Cotard's syndrome - a condition where the sufferer thinks he or she is dead. It might seem obviously false, but what makes us think we're alive?

First broadcast on Dr Broks' Casebook, 20 June 2016.

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