Sunday, September 29, 2013

#6

With looking at split-brain syndrome i was unable to find any thing that deals with the military on this. With all the brain damage going on in the military ranging from PTSD to brain tramia there is not much with that syndrome. With my other discipline history "The "split brain" was first discovered in the laboratory by Roger Sperry and Ronald Meyers in the late 1950's . Initially they began experimenting with cats, and later proceeded to study monkeys. In 1961 the first human patient was subject to the split brain surgery.
The procedure worked well as a "cure" for patients who suffered from severe epilepsy and did not respond to anti-epileptic drugs. It was soon discovered that patients who had a commissurotomy had some interesting difficulties. Patients were not able to communicate information from one hemisphere to the other, almost as though they now had two separate brains." http://www.macalester.edu/academics/psychology/whathap/ubnrp/split_brain/pioneers.html

After reading this i found it very interesting that our right side of our brain controls our left side of our body and vice versa.

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