The Most Plausible Explanation for Epilepsy

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In the seventies, there have been a few experiments made on some people who had the connection between the left and the right hemosphere of the brain severed. And those people, they can function normally. You wild probably not notice that that they have thiscondit. However, there is one a situation in which they act differently - if you give information only to one side of the head.

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