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Is there a way I could know if I have reversed laterality in my brain without getting brain surgery?

 

Generally speaking, the part of your brain controlling your language is in the left hemisphere, and the part controlling visual spatial functions is in the right. My dad recently told me of this phenomenon where in some people this is reversed. Before brain surgery, surgeons perform the Wada test to make sure they are fixing the correct part of the brain. Now I don’t particularly want brain surgery, so I was wondering if there was any way I could find out for myself if the sides of my brain are reversed. 

 

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  • Asked by carly
  • on 2010-10-18 02:23:18
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Last edited on: 2010-10-20 00:48:35

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Jon-Richfield says:

Please elaborate. It is not at all clear what you mean. For just one thing do you mean whether you were born that way, or only became that way. For an adult I do not think it is possible in practice because ther are too many functional differences between the left and right halves of the typical adult brain.

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posted on 2010-10-19 19:39:01 | Report abuse

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carly says:

 

 Sorry for my poor phrasing. I reworded the question. Is it clearer now? Oh and thanks for answering this question. 

 

 

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posted on 2010-10-20 00:51:00 | Report abuse


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