Is the Human Brain Actually Two Minds?
Season 50
Episode 9
About the Episode
The two hemispheres of the brain communicate via a bundle of fibers called the corpus callosum. For some people with epilepsy, seizures can quickly spread to the other through this region. But if that bridge is surgically severed, a seizure can no longer cross.
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