The Country Shrink on August 28th, 2008

Please pardon this digression in the name of the Almighty Science. Its ways are multitudinous, its adherents are just, ethical, loving, kind, and smarter than you (1). And then did some of the more intelligent beings on the planet, come to believe that life did arise from outer space. Not from E.T. [...]

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The Country Shrink on August 28th, 2008

The hemispherectomy was a procedure performed mostly in the 1960s and 1970s which was performed to help relieve epilepsy. In this procedure, an entire hemisphere of brain (half of the brain) was removed. While there were often some long-term effects on controlling movement in one side of the body, studies showed that these individuals retained [...]

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