Removing half of a child’s brain is possible, experts say, because of the immaturity of the organ. As disease or disability invades one hemisphere, the other hemisphere naturally begins picking up the slack. The procedure is almost universally done on children, according to Dr. Eric Kossoff, assistant professor of pediatrics and neurology at the John M. Freeman Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a member of the team that treated Emily, who was 13 at the time of her surgery. Many other hemispherectomy patients are younger
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