In Nobel Prize research beginning in the 1960s, Roger W. Sperry and colleagues studied the effects of cutting the forebrain commissures in patients as a radical treatment for intractable epilepsy.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The human brain is far slower than a Major League fastball or a blistering tennis serve -- but it has figured out a workaround. New research by University of California at Berkeley ...

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In Nobel Prize research beginning in the 1960s, Roger W. Sperry and colleagues studied the effects of cutting the forebrain commissures in patients as a radical treatment for intractable epilepsy.