Removing Part Of Brain Controls Girl's Epilepsy

Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 10:28 in Psychology & Sociology

Surgeons told Jessica Nelson one of the scariest things she will ever hear as a parent: they wanted to treat her daughter's epilepsy by cutting out or disconnecting half of her brain. Then something extraordinary happened: it worked.

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