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Sure it's brain damage. The point, though, is that the two halves of the brain become independent, functioning units, each capable of thinking and remembering for itself. Which is the "real" person?In another words the same as brain damage.
What about it? She lost capabilities specific to that side of the brain. The brain has considerable plasticity and redundancy, especially in the young. (She probably already cognitive deficits, by the way -- most patients who undergo hemispherectomy do).What about the little girl who had the left side of her brain completely removed yet her memory (except the motor and speech skills which had to be relearned) and personality was fully intact.
While not all loss of brain tissue changes personality, quite often it does, and changes to particular parts of the brain cause characteristic losses. Frontotermporal dementia often causes changes to moral behavior.
I can't find any record of such a case. The closest seems to be these girls, who are sometimes inaccurately described as sharing a brain; in reality, they may share a neural connection between their two separate brains.As for the case I'm referring to it was on a TV ... maybe on Nova but not sure. It's been a few years ago.
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