What Is a Corpus Callosotomy?- The corpus callosum is a thick bundle of nerve fibres that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.- It enables communication between both sides, but can ...

Your doctor may recommend brain surgery to treat epilepsy if you have seizures that medications can’t control. You must have tried two or more medications without success to qualify. Brain surgery for ...

An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the availability of the surgical procedure, corpus callosotomy. Arnold Palmer Hospital is the only hospital in Central Florida offering it.

The two halves of your brain are in constant communication. Severing that communication can have dramatic consequences, but in the 1950s, researchers believed that doing so could be used to treat ...