(TIME) – Severance, the extremely popular Apple TV+ series about office workers who undergo brain surgery so that their home selves have no knowledge or memory of their working selves, and vice versa, is often described as science fiction. That’s a reasonable characterization, since the simple outpatient brain surgery that splits a person between an “innie” at the office and an “outie” at home isn’t available to the rest of us. 

But while the science the show depicts goes well beyond anything that’s currently possible, many brain specialists and neurosurgeons are still fans. (Read More)