Multiple Choice
The primary reason for initially performing split-brain surgery on humans was to:
A) find out what each half of the brain can do, cut off from the other.
B) reduce the seizures in patients with debilitating, uncontrollable epilepsy.
C) find out whether the two hemispheres would develop an alternate means of communication.
D) reduce the tremors, stiffness, and rigidity of severe Parkinson's disease.
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