In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa ...

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 ...

Disruptions in a key brain region can explain the varied outcomes after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children and adolescents, according to research published in The Journal of Neuroscience. Post ...

A big bump to the head can literally send the brain bouncing around inside the skull, and all that jostling may injure the brain in a way that disrupts the flow of information from one half of the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...