also, while labotomies are definitely out, the burning away of non-diseased structures definitely does happen in the treatment of extreme depression, for example.

google is your ally.

I lost my right eye some five years ago, though i still have the corpus callosum of course, i wonder if there might be any effects (aside from some depth perception problems ;) ).

Cool video... I've read about this effect before, but never seen it in action.