Meet the 'glass-half-full girl' whose brain rewired after losing a hemisphere

Mora Leeb places some pieces into a puzzle during a local puzzle tournament. The 15-year-old has grown up without the left side of her brain after it was removed when she was very young. (Seth Leeb)

In most people, speech and language live in the brain's left hemisphere. Mora Leeb is not most people.

When she was 9 months old, surgeons removed the left side of her brain. Yet at 15, Mora plays soccer, tells jokes, gets her nails done, and, in many ways, lives the life of a typical teenager.