The brain is divided into the right and left hemispheres, and the corpus callosum connects the two halves. This bundle of nerve tissue contains more than 200 million axons (nerve fibers that carry ...

Agenesis of the corpus callosum (AgCC) occurs in approximately 1:4000 live births and can be diagnosed by neuroimaging. It may be part of a broader developmental syndrome or occur in isolation, in ...

(Medical Xpress)—Building on their prior work, a team of neuroscientists at Caltech now report that rare patients who are missing connections between the left and right sides of their brain—a ...

A study by the HSE Centre for Language and Brain has confirmed the role of the corpus callosum in language lateralization, the distribution of language processing functions between the brain's ...

The corpus callosum links one side of our brain to the other. It’s not essential for survival, but in some people it’s missing or malformed, causing quite mild to extreme disabilities. The good news ...

For the first time, a research team led by the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has mapped the genetic architecture of a ...

A 3 year-old boy was evaluated for delay in reaching verbal milestones. Otherwise, his examination was normal. Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum: T1-weighted sagittal and parasagittal MRIs. Note the ...

Brain tumor surgeries are particularly challenging due to the difficult trade-off neurosurgeons often face—remove more tumor and risk neurological injury, or preserve function and leave more tumor ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Lynne Malcolm: It's the All in the Mind on RN, Lynne Malcolm with you. Today we investigate the ...