The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form ...

Sometimes, drastic measures have to be taken to save a human life. One of the most drastic procedures in neurosurgery is a hemispherectomy, the complete removal of one of the halves (or hemispheres) ...

Children can live and even thrive after hemispherectomies due to brain plasticity, and split brain experiments reveal unique cognition.