OSU professor wants to study people with rare brain disorder

 
BY SUSAN SIMPSON
Published: December 27, 2009

STILLWATER — An Oklahoma State University psychology professor is searching the world for people born with split brains, a rare birth defect called agenesis of the corpus callosum, or ACC.

Shelia Kennison wants to survey adults with the disorder so she can learn more about memory and language processing. In people with ACC, the fibers connecting the two hemispheres of the brain do not develop at all, or onl...


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