Some Observations on Trajectories and Topography of Commissural Fibers

In recent years both clinicians and experimentalists have become increasingly interested in the functional significance of interhemispheric relations in brain function. In anatomical terms, this requires a consideration of those structures that interconnect the two cerebral hemispheres:the corpus callosum, anterior commissure, and hippocampal commissures. Perhaps the most basic questions to be posed regarding the anatomy of these structures relates to their composition. What fibers do they transmit? Do all cortical areas have interhemispheric connections? If not, which areas do and which do not?

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