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    A corpus callosotomy (/kəˈlɔːs(ə)təmiː/) is a palliative surgical procedure for the treatment of medically refractory epilepsy. The procedure was first...
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    The surgical operation to produce this condition (corpus callosotomy) involves transection of the corpus callosum, and is usually a last resort to treat...
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  • separate conscious entities within their one brain after undergoing a corpus callosotomy. The idea first began circulating in the neuroscience community after...
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    epilepsy can be reduced by cutting through the corpus callosum in an operation known as a corpus callosotomy lobotomy paralysis. This is usually reserved...
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  • a corpus callosotomy causes seizure freedom however in half of the patients the dangerous drop attacks are less severe. After a corpus callosotomy among...
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    partial callosotomy, or the entirety in the case of complete callosotomy. Without the presence of longitudinal fissure, the corpus callosotomy procedure...
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  • cerebral hemisphere, in an operation called hemispherectomy or via a corpus callosotomy. This usually results in further weakness, hemianopsia and cognitive...
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  • are intrigued by Scott (Ashton Holmes), a man who has undergone a corpus callosotomy procedure to treat epilepsy. The procedure left him with independently...
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    approach to minimally invasive endoscope assisted hemispherectomy and corpus callosotomy for pediatric patients with epilepsy. Lam's research program is based...
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    50% reduction in seizures reported in more than half of patients. corpus callosotomy, which has shown to be effective with atonic seizures. This procedure...
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    tumors, and removing parts of the neocortex. Some procedures such as a corpus callosotomy are attempted in an effort to decrease the number of seizures rather...
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    epilepsy the corpus callosum may be severed to cut the major connection between the hemispheres in a procedure known as a corpus callosotomy. A hemispherectomy...
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  • from specialists in the field and often offers research enrollment. Corpus callosotomy Hemispherectomy Foundation Dandy, Walter E. (1928-03-17). "REMOVAL...
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    Rolston JD, Englot DJ, Wang DD, Garcia PA, Chang EF (October 2015). "Corpus callosotomy versus vagus nerve stimulation for atonic seizures and drop attacks:...
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  • are intrigued by Scott (Ashton Holmes), a man who has undergone a corpus callosotomy procedure to treat epilepsy. Due to this, both sides of his brain...
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    surgery (the latter includes partial or total corpus callosotomy – severing part or all of the corpus callosum to stop or lessen seizure spread and activity...
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    have undergone corpus callosotomy (usually as a treatment for severe epilepsy), a severing of a large part of the corpus callosum. The corpus callosum connects...
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    citation needed] In certain split-brain patients who have undergone a corpus callosotomy to treat severe epilepsy, the information from one optic tract does...
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  • designed to service rare and exotic tastes. Som-Som has undergone a corpus callosotomy, severing the connection between the two hemispheres of her brain;...
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    Binder, Devin K. (2008-02-29). "William P. van Wagenen and the first corpus callosotomies for epilepsy". Journal of Neurosurgery. 108 (3): 608–613. doi:10...
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  • M, Fabri M, Paggi A, Lewald J; Sound lateralization in subjects with callosotomy, callosal agenesis, or hemispherectomy; Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 25(2)...
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  • occipital resection, frontal resection, extratemporal resection, and callosotomy. Hemispherectomy or hemispherotomy involves removal or a functional disconnection...
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  • hemisphere and words to the left hemisphere. In people that have had callosotomies done, the McGurk effect is still present but significantly slower. In...
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