"Split-brain" patients are patients who have had __________.
A) a prefrontal lobotomy
B) their cerebellum split in the middle
C) their corpus callosum cut
D) a skull fracture in which bone fragments penetrated into the brain

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"Split-brain" patients have had their corpus callosum cut, which is the bundle of nerve fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain. This procedure was sometimes used to treat severe epilepsy to prevent seizures from spreading between the two hemispheres.

"Split-Brain" Patients Are Patients Who Have Had __________