The appearance diffusion coefficient and the fractional anisotropy were measured for the splenium of the corpus callosum, the genu of the corpus callosum, and the hippocampus.
Alcohol-induced brain damage includes partial or complete agenesis of the corpus callosum, which links the two hemispheres together, so it either forms incompletely, or not at all.
Much of what we know about the division of activity between hemispheres comes from " split-brain" patients: people whose brains have had their corpus callosum severed.
The free edge of the falx cerebri is in close contact with the central part of the brain, called corpus callosum, which connects the left and right hemisphere.
For example, Chow and his team found that genetic mutations related to stuttering are linked to structural problems in the corpus callosum and thalamus areas of the brain.