Split-brain surgery, or corpus calloscotomy, is a drastic way of alleviating epileptic seizures, the occurrence of sporadic electrical storms in the brain. The procedure involves severing the corpus ...

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(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 ...

Agenesis of the corpus callosum is a rare brain malformation that happens as your baby develops in the womb. It causes varying symptoms and challenges from mild to severe. Many children with this ...

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 ...

The corpus callosum connects the left side of the brain to the right side, known as hemispheres. This connection allows information to pass between the two halves. Corpus callosum is Latin for “tough ...

The corpus callosum is a structure that connects the right and left sides of the brain. It contains 200 million nerve fibers that pass information back and forth. Agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC) ...

Key Points: Scientists continue to uncover the ways in which even mild brain injury influences the brain's functioning. Recent findings suggest that such injuries can have an impact on the structure ...

Brain imaging studies find evidence of prefrontal cortical dysfunction in cocaine-dependent subjects. Similarly, cocaine-dependent subjects have problems with behaviors related to executive function ...