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The split brain: A tale of two halves

Since the 1960s, researchers have been scrutinizing a handful of patients who underwent a radical kind of brain surgery. The cohort has been a boon to neuroscience — but soon it will be gone.

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Wolman, D. The split brain: A tale of two halves. Nature 483, 260–263 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/483260a

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