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The split brain: A tale of two halves

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  • David Wolman

    (David Wolman is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon, and the author, most recently, of The End of Money.)

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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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  • David Wolman, 2012. "The split brain: A tale of two halves," Nature, Nature, vol. 483(7389), pages 260-263, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:483:y:2012:i:7389:d:10.1038_483260a
    DOI: 10.1038/483260a
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    1. Christelle Glangetas & Adriane Guillaumin & Elodie Ladevèze & Anaelle Braine & Manon Gauthier & Léa Bonamy & Evelyne Doudnikoff & Thibault Dhellemmes & Marc Landry & Erwan Bézard & Stephanie Caille & , 2024. "A population of Insula neurons encodes for social preference only after acute social isolation in mice," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-18, December.

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