
#43 Right Brain / Left Brain
Minding the Brain
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How to Treat Intractable Epilepsy
One of the ways to treat intractable epilepsy is by severing or cutting off one half of the corpus chlosum. This seems to reduce seizure activity, and it's been done in humans as well. Spary was interested in these interesting phenomena with animals that have had this split brain preparation. Why don't we see what happens with humans? So Gizanaga came in and started studying a human patient known as WJ.
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