Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The decision to disconnect half of 9-year-old Griffin McConnell’s brain in an effort to halt severe epileptic seizures was a complex process involving many ...

Mora Leeb, now 16, was 9 months old when she underwent a hemispherectomy. Her doctors explain why such a drastic operation was her best chance for a full life Elinor Carucci When Ann and Seth Leeb’s ...

A new study by Johns Hopkins Children's Center scientists confirms the lasting benefits of hemispherectomy, a dramatic operation in which half the brain is removed to relieve frequent severe ...

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center report that hemispherectomy – a procedure in which half the brain is removed -– may reduce or eliminate severe seizures even in older children ...

A new study looked at the long-term effects of having a hemispherectomy, where the right or left half of the brain is surgically removed or disconnected. The procedure is done mainly in very young ...

What happens when half of a person’s brain is removed? Researchers of a new study show the incredible way that the human brain adapts. In a procedure called hemispherectomy, the hemisphere of the ...

A six-year-old girl in California has undergone a radical procedure in which half of her brain was removed after being diagnosed with a rare condition that causes debilitating seizures. Brianna Bodley ...

A new study by Johns Hopkins Children's Center scientists confirms the lasting benefits of hemispherectomy, a dramatic operation in which half the brain is removed to relieve frequent severe seizures ...