Ilaria Marcantoni, Giusi Piccolantonio, Mojgan Ghoushi, Marco Valenti, Luca Reversi, Francesco Mariotti, Nicoletta Foschi, Simona Lattanzi, Laura Burattini, Mara Fabri, Gabriele Polonara
INTRODUCTION: Functional connectivity (FC) is defined in terms of temporal correlations between physiological signals, which mainly depend upon structural (axonal) connectivity; it is commonly studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Interhemispheric FC appears mostly supported by the corpus callosum (CC), although several studies investigating this aspect have not provided conclusive evidence. In this context, patients in whom the CC was resected for therapeutic reasons (split-brain patients) provide a unique opportunity for research into this issue...
2024: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience