Left vs. Right Brain
Summary
Joe was a man who had suffered from epileptic seizures two or three times a day for many years. In order to prevent these seizures, Dr. Mike Gazzaniga severed the right side of the brain from the left side, by cutting the corpus callosum that connected the two brains. This put an end to the seizures, but also prevented the left and right halves of his brain from communicating with each other. Now, Joe’s left and right brains think independently.
The left side of the brain typically controls the right side of the body, and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body. Motor messages from one can confuse the other, if they try to work simultaneously.
Keywords: split-brain, corpus callosum, Mike Gazzaniga
