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The Hemispherectomy Paradox: When Half a Brain Is Enough

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We think of the brain as a map. This region for movement, that region for speech, this fold for recognizing faces. Lose a piece, lose the function. It is a tidy, mechanical model. It is also, in the face of the most extreme neurosurgical interventions, profoundly incomplete. Consider the hemispherectomy. The surgical removal, disconnection, or functional […]

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The Paralysis at the Party

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There is a house on Rosemary Street. It exists outside time, a fixed coordinate in the geography of memory and dream. In this house, conversations happen—about men, about nothing—and then, without warning, people are doing pushups on the floor. The absurdity is so pure, so complete, that it jolts you awake, laughing. This is the

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