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.

But researchers were concerned about whether this procedure might have other, less desirable effects. What happens when the right and left sides of the cerebral cortex—responsible for an enormous ...

What would happen if your brain was split in two? In this recent Invisibilia podcast and show, host Hanna Rosin meets a woman named Karen with "alien hand syndrome." After surgery to treat her ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. We’ve all been mesmerized by them—those beautiful brain scan images that make us feel ...

Here’s a notion that might make some science feathers ruffle: decades of neurosurgical data imply your mind may not be entirely contained in your brain. For anyone indoctrinated with the “you are your ...

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, Berkeley ...

Michael Gazzaniga was still a graduate student when he helped make one of the most intriguing discoveries of modern neuroscience: that the two hemispheres of the brain not only have different ...

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 ...

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.