The Enigma of Split-Brain Individuals
In the close of 1961, neurosurgeons Philip Vogel and Joseph Bogen from the California College of Medicine in Los Angeles embarked on an innovative surgical procedure. Their goal? To alleviate severe epilepsy symptoms in patients for whom traditional methods had proven ineffective. W.J., a 48-year-old former paratrooper, was one such patient. After sustaining a...