Corpus callosum

Autism is a developmental disorder that impacts social interaction, language acquisition, and repetitive behavior (Gargaro, Rinehart, Bradshaw, Tonge, & Sheppard, 2011). The disorder affects males at a higher rate at a ratio of 4-5 to 1, and in the American population has a prevalence rate of 0.9% (Gargaro et al., 2011). Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a common neuro-developmental disorder that is characterized by inattentiveness and impulsivity (Gargaro et al., 2011). The…

Paul Pierre Broca talked about ‘le grand lobe limbique’ in 1878 or the great limbic lobe and used the term “limbic” (from the Latin limbus for border) to the rounded rim of the cortex which also has the cingulate and the parahippocampalgyri. However, its supposed role in emotion was elaborated by the American physician, James Papez in 1937 in the influential paper titled ‘A proposed mechanism of emotion’. This anatomical model is called the Papez circuit.[2] In the year of 1948 scientist…

People question. How it is caused?, how can it be treated?, what symptoms could occur through brain cancer? Many people suffer from a type of cancer. One cancer that is good to learn is, brain cancer. You can’t walk to a local store and ask for medicine to cure this disease. To treat brain cancer you may have to visit your local doctor. This disease takes a process that may slowly progress like a turtle going to the shore. Some people have it for a lifetime. But some live with it for a short…

DEDICATION We would like to thank Ravyna Jasani for helping us with the photography for The Brain Buddies, Monica Naha who introduced the concept of “Right Brain Education” to us, Master Aarav Mehta without whom we would have never been inspired by the wonders of “Right Brain” and last but not the least our families, who provided us with all the necessary support. FOREWORD When I first heard about Right Brain Education, there was a dearth of information available on the topic. What it was, how…

were on the same side as the lesion contralateral control- sensory input, motor input; “the left hemisphere of the motor cortex controls simple movements in the right side of the body, and the right hemisphere controls the body’s left side” corpus callosum- connect cerebral hemispheres to each other, allor for communication between…