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Could a split brain patient be able to describe sensation in each hand?

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Dr. Mark Fisher answered

Specializes in Neurology

Do you know one?: Do you mean an adult who for some reason has had a corpus callosotomy? Or something else? A right-handed post-callosotomy patient, according to the textbook, should not be able to describe sensation in the left hand. But not every patient reads the textbook.

Answered 7/21/2017

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