Analysis Of The Corpus Callosum

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The corpus callosum is an area of the brain that connects the left and right hemispheres in order allow communication throughout different sections of a brain. This acts as the main communication pathway in order to coordinate different sections of the brain to perform various tasks. Proper development of this portion of the brain is vital to ensure that no major abnormalities may cause possible issues in longterm development.

If it fails to develop by either not being able to grow properly or becoming damaged in some sort of way, it may cause autism or additional problems in the needs of living a daily life. These problems may include difficulty with vision or depth perception due to the fact of human eyes are connected to different sections

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