One of the very great investigation failures of today's psychologists and neuroscientists is their tendency to only search scientific papers when writing scientific papers. The fact is that there are huge additional sources of information providing very important cases of medical case histories. Those include newspapers and magazines. It is not hard to search for medical case histories documented in newspapers. For example, the free Chronicling America site allows you to search through more than 100 years of American newspapers. You can use the site by using the link below:
https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/about-this-collection/
Below is one of the very interesting cases I get when using the phrase "brain gone." We read about how Guy Morrison "retained all his faculties with half his brain gone."
You can read the news account using this link:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86069021/1908-12-04/ed-1/?sp=3&&r=0.125,0.083,0.648,0.31,0
The article tells us of a man who had a hunting accident which left him without a left half of his brain. But we are told that he "retained all his faculties." Later another shooting accident killed him. At the end of the story, we read this speculation: "The fact that he retained all his faculties with half his brain gone, the doctors say, was due to the fact that he must have been using the right lobe exclusively before his first accident." The speculation makes no sense. Nobody with two brain halves would be using only one of those halves.
The case history above is quite compatible with my claim that the brain is not the source of the human mind. The case is not compatible with typical claims of neuroscientist literature, such as claims that speech arises from the left side of the brain.
To read about many other cases in which people suffered little after losing the left half of their brain, read my series of posts here.
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