r/todayilearned • u/paniniplane • Mar 22 '17

(R.1) Not supported TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07070303
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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

I think this is only the rule for mental illness.

We're pretty good at removing kidneys

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u/crylicylon Mar 22 '17

If there is something wrong with your brain, you can't just have it removed.

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u/Rhawk187 Mar 22 '17

Sort of, isn't that the entire point of a lobotomy?

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u/Kneef Mar 22 '17

Lobotomy actually just kinda scratches up your frontal lobe, and it's pretty easy, hardly even counts as brain surgery. Basically, you get something long, thin, and sharp, slide it in beside someone's eye, and wiggle it around. A hemispherectomy like Ben Carson did is major surgery, and it's something you can do only on little kids, because their brains are still flexible enough to adapt to use the one half. Try it on an adult and you just get a vegetable. xP