The cognitive specialization of the hemispheres and the symptoms that follow their disconnection are reviewed. The hypothesis is proposed that in normal intact peopls, mental events in the iight hemisphere can become disconnected functionally from the left hemisphere (by inhibition of neuronal transmission acmss the cerebral commissures) and can Continue with a life of their own. This hypothesi...

The Neurology and Medical Departments of the Detroit Receiving Hospital have recently made clinical and electroencephalographic (E.E.G.) studies of two patients in a family in which several members appear to have either pseudohypoparathyroidism or pseudo-pseudohypoparathyroidism. The findings were of sufficient interest to prompt us to review this subject and to present our findings since the n...

The cognitive specialization of the hemispheres and the symptoms that follow their disconnection are reviewed. The hypothesis is proposed that in normal intact peopls, mental events in the iight hemisphere can become disconnected functionally from the left hemisphere (by inhibition of neuronal transmission acmss the cerebral commissures) and can Continue with a life of their own. This hypothesi...

The cognitive specialization of the hemispheres and the symptoms that follow their disconnection are reviewed. The hypothesis is proposed that in normal intact peopls, mental events in the iight hemisphere can become disconnected functionally from the left hemisphere (by inhibition of neuronal transmission acmss the cerebral commissures) and can Continue with a life of their own. This hypothesi...