Mike Morgan knew it would be risky to let surgeons open his skull and slice out a piece of tissue. He understood operating on this part of the brain was uncommon and that it might further damage his sight.
But Morgan was ready to take that chance to potentially learn why he was suffering seizures and processing information slower than he ever had, since part of his brain burst in a hemorrhage more than four years ago.
Morgan also wanted to serve science, offering medical researchers a rare opportunity to examine freshly removed tissue from the primary visual cortex in a quest to better understand this powerful but little understood part of the brain.
