Counterintuitive as it may seem, you can actually function fairly well with just one half of the brain, so in Lillian Grace case in particular, we felt very comfortable disconnecting the right side of the brain from the nervous system.

Michael Quatch

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In the vast majority of people who are right-handed, almost all have the language on the left side of the brain, in very, very young kids … they don’t tend to pick a side [ of the brain ] for their language yet.

Actually when they came and saw us, Lillian Grace was already having about 25 seizures per hour, so it was kind of shocking on our end.