Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
split brain
split brain
Subclass of:
Neurosurgical Procedures
Definitions related to split brain:
  • Brain in which connections between the hemispheres have been severed or otherwise disrupted.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (split-brain procedure) Complete severing of the CORPUS CALLOSUM. In humans it is usually performed to treat medically intractable, multifocal EPILEPSY. EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL MODELS of split brain preparations are used in research.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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