Creating Connections in the Developing Brain : Mechanisms Regulating Corpus Callosum Development (Colloquium Series on the Developing Brain)

The corpus callosum is the largest fibre tract in the human brain and subserves many of the brain's higher-order functions. Disconnection syndromes resulting from surgical ablation, developmental absence (agenesis of the corpus callosum), disease, or injury of the corpus callosum can have profound consequences on cognition.