Background Flashcards
(3 cards)
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Epilepsy
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Epilepsy is a neurological condition that affects 600,000 people in the uk and causes uncontrollable seizures. One treatment is severing the bundle of nerves that connect the 2 brain hemispheres
2
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Investigation with animals
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Sperry investigated the role of the hemispheres in cats and monkeys which has their 2 hemispheres cut
By training animals he found you can teach one hemisphere a task while the other was unaware
3
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Opposite sides of the brain
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His studies showed that each hemisphere of the brain controls the opposite side of the body
