One hundred million years of interhemispheric communication: The history of the corpus callosum

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 409-420

  Aboitiz, F ^a   Montiel, J ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Commissures; Evolution; Interhemispheric transfer; Lateralization; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SIZE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; REVIEW; SENSORY CORTEX; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037720330     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: 1414431X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2003000400002     Document Type: Review

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