Patients who have undergone split brain surgery:
A) develop two separate spheres of consciousness.
B) rarely live longer than a week.
C) are unable to look into a mirror.
D) lose their emotions.
E) have vivid and uncontrollable dreams.

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Split brain surgery, which involves severing the corpus callosum to reduce the severity of epileptic seizures, can lead to the phenomenon where each hemisphere of the brain operates independently, creating a sense of two separate spheres of consciousness.

Patients Who Have Undergone Split Brain Surgery