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Martha Curtis
On stage, Martha Curtis plays a tender melody from a Beethoven Symphony when a powerful force engulfs her...30 minutes later she awakens...she has suffered yet another gran mal seizure. After years of taking medication and suffering four grand mal seizures in a single month - three of them while performing on stage- she underwent the first of three major surgeries to stop the neurological storms. In 1991 Curtis, under the care of doctors from the Cleveland Clinic, underwent the first of what would become three major brain surgeries. Putting her music career at risk, she eventually had nearly 50 percent of her right temporal lobe removed. Today Martha is seizure-free and her ability to perform and memorize difficult pieces of music is greater than before the operations. Martha Curtis' success story has single-handedly changed preconceived theories about brain and memory function.
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