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SUBMITTER: Tovar-Moll F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4040546 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tovar-Moll Fernanda F Monteiro Myriam M Andrade Juliana J Bramati Ivanei E IE Vianna-Barbosa Rodrigo R Marins Theo T Rodrigues Erika E Dantas Natalia N Behrens Timothy E J TE de Oliveira-Souza Ricardo R Moll Jorge J Lent Roberto R
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20140512 21
Why do humans born without the corpus callosum, the major interhemispheric commissure, lack the disconnection syndrome classically described in callosotomized patients? This paradox was discovered by Nobel laureate Roger Sperry in 1968, and has remained unsolved since then. To tackle the hypothesis that alternative neural pathways could explain this puzzle, we investigated patients with callosal dysgenesis using structural and functional neuroimaging, as well as neuropsychological assessments. W ...[more]