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W.J. was a veteran of World War II. He was gregarious, charming, and
witty. He also happed to suffer from a debilitating form of epilepsy—so
incapacitating that, in 1960, he elected to have a drastic form of brain
surgery: his corpus collosum—the connecting fabric between the left and
right hemispheres of the brain that allows the two halves to
communicate—would be severed. In the past, this form of treatment had
been shown to have a dramatic effect on the incidence of seizures.
Patients who had been unable to function could all of a sudden lead
seizure-free lives. But did such a dramatic change to the brain’s
natural connectivity come at a cost?
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W.J. was a veteran of World War II. He was gregarious, charming, and
witty. He also happed to suffer from a debilitating form of epilepsy—so
incapacitating that, in 1960, he elected to have a drastic form of brain
surgery: his corpus collosum—the connecting fabric between the left and
right hemispheres of the brain that allows the two halves to
communicate—would be severed. In the past, this form of treatment had
been shown to have a dramatic effect on the incidence of seizures.
Patients who had been unable to function could all of a sudden lead
seizure-free lives. But did such a dramatic change to the brain’s
natural connectivity come at a cost? more...
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