Or can you get by with just one of them? Here's an interesting new case of successful treatment of a brave child's severe epilepsy by removing his right frontal lobe.
http://snipurl.com/26lc5oq Too soon to know the long-term effects of such radical surgery, but according to his father, "He's doing exceptionally well. Although specialists can see some differences in the timing of his development from his peers, in every other way he is just a normal, happy, healthy kid." It bears comparision with the case of Phineas Gage whose frontal lobe was damaged as an adult, but even for poor Phineas, there's been a reassessment of how great his impairment really was (and a remarkable post-accident photograph has surfaced showing him to be a handsome devil). See Malcolm Macmillan's page on this at http://www.uakron.edu/gage/, especially the section "psychosocial adaptation". The case of the child seems to be included in this recent study: Simasathien, T. et al (2013) Improved outcomes with earlier surgery for intractable frontal lobe epilepsy. Annals of Neurology, published on-line March 11. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.23862/abstract Stephen -------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca --------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=24296 or send a blank email to leave-24296-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
