By Joost Kools During my internships, a colleague held a presentation about epilepsy and claimed that a hemispherectomy, a type of surgery where half of the brain is removed, can be a possible treatment for children with severe epilepsy. I was completely baffled when I heard this. How can we possibly remove one half of the brain and still retain a decent quality of life? After all, our brain is one of the most important and complex parts of our bodies, but also very fragile, where damage to … [Lees meer...]