Comments on: If I only had a (half a) brain

By: Slappy

Slappy — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:29:01 +0000

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

By: foobarbara

foobarbara — Sat, 26 May 2007 06:27:08 +0000

Why is the left testical always bigger than the right?

By: clint

clint — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:01:28 +0000

I’ve had half a brain most of my life and still am smarter than most.

The body can rebuild.

Clint

By: Katherine

Katherine — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:57:09 +0000

This is also usually done on only young kids because their brains still have plasticity. That means that the side not removed can usually handle the functions of the removed side. Adult brains no longer have that ability. The pioneer of this procedure was Benjamin Carson. You should read his book, Gifted Hands.

By: Ransom

Ransom — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:46:52 +0000

Scarecrow, of course, the Scarecrow. (Dumb, dumb, dumb.) Now let the blogger-with-half-a-brain jokes begin …

By: al hott

al hott — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:04:55 +0000

I have met many, many folks with half a brain (or maybe even less) and they still had vision in both eyes and used all their limbs.

their brain was the only nonfunctioning part of the body as far as I could tell.

By: Mark R. Brown

Mark R. Brown — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:39:04 +0000

If I had to have this done, my favorite joke would be to start every sentence with:

“You know, I’ve got half a mind to…”

By: GCAW

GCAW — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:27:36 +0000

Actually, the eye that loses its sight is on the same side as the hemisphere that gets removed. In neurology terms, eyes and ears have “ipsilateral” wiring.

By: Stevo

Stevo — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:22:37 +0000

The visual effects are actually a bit more complex. The left side of the brain controls the right half of the visual field of both eyes, while the right side of the brain controls the left half of the field in both eyes. If you lose one side of the brain, you still have the remaininig visual field in both eyes controlled by the other side of the brain. Because of this, you will actually have depth perception, but a highly restricted visual field in the eye opposite the side of the brain affected.

By: Mpyre9

Mpyre9 — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:03:12 +0000

beat me to it!