Monday, 17. September 2007
Topic: LOST FOUND - on September 17, 2007 at 1:52:00 PM CEST
Classic video of split-brain patient online [video]
YouTube hosts a classic video of one of the famous 'split-brain' patients who had his corpus callosum surgically cut to treat otherwise untreatable epilepsy, effectively separating the two hemispheres of the brain.
This procedure is intended to stop seizures spreading across the brain and its effects were first studied in depth by Roger Sperry, who won a Nobel prize for his work demonstrating that the patients experienced, in certain situations, a sort of split consciousness.
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