He suffered a partial stroke that left the right side of his body without feeling.

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Ms Giffords suffered a bullet wound to her brain's left hemisphere, which controls speech and movement for the right side of the body.

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Dr. Waltz decided to put an implant in just the right side of my chest -- the right brain controls the left side of the body.

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But tilt it to the left or right, or move it towards one side of your body or another, and the screen goes blurry.

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Modern-day right-handed crabs orient their prey with the shell pointing away from their body and the opening on the right-hand side.

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"She is moving both sides(of her body), but having a little difficulty on the right side, " da Costa. said.

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For reasons that lie deep in the evolutionary history of the vertebrates, the right hemisphere deals with sensory input from the left-hand side of the body, and vice versa.

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