As it turns out, the consequences were surprisingly slight. Cameron is weak on one side of her body, but otherwise she’s essentially indistinguishable from the other children in her class. She has no problems understanding language, music, math, stories. She’s good in school and she participates in sports. How could this be possible? It’s not that one half of Cameron’s brain was simply not needed; instead, the remaining half of Cameron’s brain dynamically rewired to take over the missing functions, essentially cramming all the operations into half the brain space. Cameron’s recovery
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