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39 - Neurons, Double-crossed

The Curious Clinicians

CHAPTER

The Neurology of the Central Nervous System

Ramon E. Kahal was a pathologist and neuroanatomist who shared the 1906 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine with Camilo Golgi. In 1898, he noticed this curious thing that the right half of the world or visual field to be more specific is seen in quotations by the left half of the brain. He asked why would we be structured that way? And so he reasoned that this more complex arrangement that we and our very ancient animal ancestors evolved to have must provide us with some advantage.

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