A 6-year-old girl suffering from a rare neurological disease underwent life-saving surgery that permanently separated half of her brain.

A team of doctors in Southern California succeeded in stopping the functioning of the right side of the girl's brain in a surgery that took more than 10 hours, to overcome rheumatoid encephalitis, which will enable her to live a normal life.

The child, Brianna Bodley, was suffering daily bouts of Rasmussen syndrome, which is a chronic inflammation of the brain that can lead to permanent brain damage and deterioration of motor skills, according to CNN.

For his part, pediatric neurosurgeon from Loma Linda University Health, Aaron Robison, said that closing half of the child’s brain was the most effective method, instead of removing part of her brain as doctors used to do, explaining that simply separating it is enough to stop the disease completely and fundamentally, and perhaps His treatment.

He continued that the doctors decided to turn off the non-working part of her brain by passing through the natural opening in the brain called the “selfie fissure,” noting that the left side is still working and is now taking over the tasks that the right side was performing.

He added, "The girl may lose some peripheral vision and some fine motor skills in her left hand, but physical therapy will help her restore them, given that she is a 6-year-old girl."