It has been claimed that the human corpus callosum shows sex differences, and in particular that the splenium (the posterior portion) is larger in women than in men. Data collected before 1910 from cadavers indicate that, on average, males have larger brains than females and that the average size of their corpus callosum is larger. A meta-analysis of 49 studies published since 1980 reveals no s...

The corpus callosum – the main pathway for long-distance inter-hemispheric integration in the human brain – has been frequently reported to be smaller among autistic patients compared with non-autistic controls. We performed a metaanalysis of the literature which suggested a statistically significant difference, however, we observed that on average the studies were heavily underpowered: only 20...

OBJECTIVE The objectives are to analyse corpus callosum agenesis in children with various neurological problems in a hospital set-up, and to study the neurological and systemic abnormalities associated with this condition. METHODS The children with various neurological problems who underwent computerized tomography brain from January 1993 to December 1997, and were found to have corpus callos...

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