Word: midbrain
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...announced that he had found that two-thirds of a man's brain could be pared away without damaging intellectual powers. He reported cases where he had removed both frontal lobes in removing a tumor. Said he: '"To retain unimpaired mental powers a human needs only his midbrain and his left hemisphere...