Who Is a Candidate for a Corpus Callosotomy? A corpus callosotomy, sometimes called split-brain surgery, may be performed in people with the most extreme and uncontrollable forms of epilepsy, when ...

What Is a Corpus Callosotomy?- The corpus callosum is a thick bundle of nerve fibres that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.- It enables communication between both sides, but can ...

Since the 1960s, researchers have been scrutinizing a handful of patients who underwent a radical kind of brain surgery. The cohort has been a boon to neuroscience — but soon it will be gone. In the ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa ...

Your doctor may recommend brain surgery to treat epilepsy if you have seizures that medications can’t control. You must have tried two or more medications without success to qualify. Brain surgery for ...

BBC Reel speaks to the 'father of split brain syndrome' The father of “split-brain syndrome” explains how researchers discovered our “two brains”. Take a look at your hands. Stick out your thumb as if ...