split brain
Corpus callosum cut
Split brain refers to a condition where the corpus callosum connecting the brain's hemispheres has been severed, originally as a treatment for severe epilepsy.
The resulting patients became famous in neuroscience for revealing how the two hemispheres process information differently.
In computing, split brain describes a failure state where nodes in a distributed system lose communication and operate independently, potentially corrupting data: The network partition caused a split-brain scenario in the database cluster.
- corpus callosumInterhemispheric nerve bundle
- hemisphereHalf of a ball
- severedCut off completely
- disconnectionState of being severed
- epilepsyBrain disorder causing seizures
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