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A malformation illustrates the incredible plasticity of the brain – EurekAlert

Fibres neuronales dans un cerveau sain (en haut) et un cerveau avec agénésie du corps calleux (en bas). Dans le cerveau sain, les 2 hémisphères sont connectés…

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IMAGE: Neuronal fibers in a healthy brain (top) and a brain with agenesis of the corpus callosum (bottom). In the healthy brain, the two hemispheres are connected by the corpus callosum…
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Credit: Unige/Siffredi
One in 4,000 people is born without a corpus callosum, a brain structure consisting of neural fibres that are used to transfer information from one hemisphere to the other. A quarter of these individuals do not have any symptoms, while the remainder either have low intelligence…

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