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Originally Posted by Attila's Wife
Yes, it seems that with men, thoughts & processes that belong in the left or right side of the brain stay in the correct area, whereas with women everything's constantly muddled up.
This would explain why one minute I can appear to be having an almost rational conversation, and the next minute it's all "Oh look! Something shiny! And there's a squirrel!"
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Yes Sister that is correct, and in addition for a woman's brain to communicate laterally between the left and right hemispheres it is necessary to use a portion of the brain known as the corpus callosum. This indirect path causes much delay and tends to confuse messages as well as getting the filing system confused leading to the general tendency of women to vote democrat. Unfortunately, this was little understood until recently and too late to prevent giving women the right to vote.
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Anatomy of the Corpus Callosum Reveals Its Function
Eric Mooshagian
The Journal of Neuroscience, 13 February 2008, 28(7): 1535-1536; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5426-07.2008
The corpus callosum (CC) comprises axons connecting the cortices of the two cerebral hemispheres and is the principal white matter fiber bundle in the brain. As recently as the mid 20th century, the CC was thought to serve no other purpose than preventing the two hemispheres from collapsing on one another (Bogen, 1979). This cynical view was attributable to the failure of the Van Wagenen/Akelaitis split-brain surgery to reveal strong disconnection symptoms. The work of Myers and Sperry (1958) in the 1950s changed this by definitively confirming the functional role of the CC in the interhemispheric transfer of visual information in animals. Since then, the structure and function of the CC have remained topics of continuous investigation (Zaidel and Iacoboni, 2003). In particular, researchers have asked how callosal structure relates to callosal function (i.e., hemispheric specialization and interaction). One pioneering study of callosal morphology relied on light microscopy of postmortem specimens to look at callosal structure and fiber composition (Aboitiz et al., 1992), but most anatomical studies of humans have relied on structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) morphometry of midsagittal cross-section views of the CC. In contrast, a few recent studies have used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) methods to re-evaluate callosal topography (for discussion, see Wahl et al., 2007). These methods challenge the conventional partitioning schemes used to divide the CC into functionally significant regions (Witelson, 1989).
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http://www.jneurosci.org/content/28/7/1535.full
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