But here’s my question. If you can live with half a brain, what if I were to take two empty skulls.
A hemispherectomy is a surgical procedure in which half of a person’s brain is removed. It’s usually only ever done on very, very young patients because their brains are still plastic enough that the remaining half will take on the functions of the half that was removed. And it’s usually done because a young child or a baby is having seizures, and removing the part where the seizures occur is the only solution.
