Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doctors performed a 10-hour hemispherotomy on a 6-year-old Southern California girl last month. Brianna Bodley suffered from ...

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An unprecedented study of brain plasticity and visual perception found that people who, as children, had undergone surgery removing half of their brain correctly recognized differences between pairs ...

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) ...

A 6-year-old girl is recovering after undergoing a 10-hour procedure in which doctors disconnected half of her brain to try and eliminate her daily seizures. Brianna Bodley, 6, will spend the rest of ...