2006-08-20 08:40:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Epilepsy
They cut the Corpus Callosum (a "data pipe" connecting the two hemispheres of the human brain) to help people to deal with otherwise untreatable seizures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum
There are some very interesting studies on people who have been so treated.
Here's another informative link:
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/split.html
2006-08-20 08:44:38 · answer #1 · answered by Pablo Fanques 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Split Brain Surgery
2016-11-07 08:51:30 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you ask such a question? The brain is split in a very rare surgery for epilpsy when nothing else, like medication, works and the seizures are signficant. Both epilepsy and Parkinsons are neurological disorders, Downs Syndrome is chro mosomal, and syphillis is a veneral disease.
2006-08-20 08:46:34 · answer #3 · answered by banananose_89117 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no treatment for Downs Syndrome
2006-08-20 08:46:51 · answer #4 · answered by Josh S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know its used in Epilepsy.
The part severed is called the corpus callosum.
2006-08-20 08:45:00 · answer #5 · answered by Nicholas C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I concur - epilepsy.
2006-08-20 08:45:46 · answer #6 · answered by Faye W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋