Jody Miller's Case Study

At the age of three years, Jody Miller was having difficulties in moving the left side of her body and began experiencing severe epileptic seizures. She was soon diagnosed with Rasmussen’s Syndrome; a neurodegenerative syndrome including symptoms such as slight paralysis, epileptic seizures, decline in cognition and behaviour. On the recommendation of a paediatric neurologist, Miller underwent an operation that would remove the right hemisphere of her brain, known as a hemispherectomy, in an attempt to prevent these seizures and the risk of fatality. Miller was no longer experiencing the severe seizures and only ten days after the surgery she was able to walk out of the hospital. Researchers found that although the right hemisphere of her brain