Our Storytelling Minds: Do We Ever Really Know What's Going on Inside?
Nobel Prize winning neuropsychologist Roger Sperry. Image Credit: Wikipedia.
W.J. was a veteran of World War II. He was gregarious, charming, and witty. He also happed to suffer from a debilitating form of epilepsy so incapacitating that, in 1960, he elected to have a drastic form of brain surgery: his corpus collosum the connecting fabric between the left and right hemispheres of the brain that allows the two halves to communicate would be severed. In the past, this form of treatment had been shown to have a dramatic effect on the incidence of seizures. Patients who had been unable to function could all of a sudden lead seizure-free lives. But did such a dramatic change to the brain s natural connectivity come at a cost?
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