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Brain scans reveal how the human brain compensates when one hemisphere is removed

November 22, 2019

Researchers studying six adults who had one of their brain hemispheres removed during childhood to reduce epileptic seizures found that the remaining half of the brain formed unusually strong connections between different functional brain networks, which potentially help the body to function as if the brain were intact. Read more at Discover.