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Agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC) is a rare congenital disorder that is one of the most common brain malformations observed in human beings, [30] in which the corpus callosum is partially or completely absent. ACC is usually diagnosed within the first two years of life, and may manifest as a severe syndrome in infancy or childhood, as a ...
Split-brain or callosal syndrome is a type of disconnection syndrome when the corpus callosum connecting the two hemispheres of the brain is severed to some degree. It is an association of symptoms produced by disruption of, or interference with, the connection between the hemispheres of the brain.
[3] As a treatment for epilepsy the corpus callosum may be severed to cut the major connection between the hemispheres in a procedure known as a corpus callosotomy. A hemispherectomy is the removal or disabling of one of the hemispheres of the brain.
An example is commissural disconnect in adults which usually results from surgical intervention, tumor, or interruption of the blood supply to the corpus callosum or the immediately adjacent structures. Callosal disconnection syndrome is characterized by left ideomotor apraxia and left-hand agraphia and/or tactile anomia, and is relatively rare.
Corpus callosum; Anterior commissure; Amygdalofugal pathway; Interthalamic adhesion; Posterior commissure; Habenular commissure; Fornix; Mammillotegmental fasciculus; Incertohypothalamic pathway; Cerebral peduncle; Medial forebrain bundle; Medial longitudinal fasciculus; Myoclonic triangle; Solitary tract; Major dopaminergic pathways from ...
The lateralization of brain function (or hemispheric dominance [1] [2] / lateralization [3] [4]) is the tendency for some neural functions or cognitive processes to be specialized to one side of the brain or the other. The median longitudinal fissure separates the human brain into two distinct cerebral hemispheres, connected by the corpus callosum.
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Corpus callosum. A corpus callosotomy (/ k ə ˈ l ɔː s (ə) t ə m iː /) is a palliative surgical procedure for the treatment of medically refractory epilepsy. [1] The procedure was first performed in 1940 by William P. van Wagenen. [2]