In Nobel Prize research beginning in the 1960s, Roger W. Sperry and colleagues studied the effects of cutting the forebrain commissures in patients as a radical treatment for intractable epilepsy.

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers report that only a small ...

Split-brain surgery, or corpus calloscotomy, is a drastic way of alleviating epileptic seizures, the occurrence of sporadic electrical storms in the brain. The procedure involves severing the corpus ...