Tales from Both Sides of the Brain

More than fifty years ago, Michael Gazzaniga made one of the most important discoveries in all of neuroscience - the now foundational understanding that the brain's right and left hemispheres have different strengths and can act independently from one another. Join the father of cognitive neuroscience for a conversation on the evolution of neuroscience and his life and career spent uncovering the mysteries of the brain. He appears in conversation with Dr. Paul Kalanithi, chief resident in neurological surgery at Stanford University.