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Pat has decided to undergo surgery to treat her severe epilepsy. consequently, her doctors will use a surgical procedure in which they will sever her ________.

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They will sever her corpus callosum in which they are nerve fibers in the brain. They allow the hemispheres in the brain to be connected and severing this is a requirement to treat her epilepsy. This will reduce the symptoms that occurs in the contribution of epilepsy for they could be one of the factors contributing to those who people who has epilepsy.
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