Concussions of the Brain

Live Science staff writer Nicoleta Lanese submitted a recent report on the damage that concussions can have on the bridge between the two halves of the brain. Even a bump to the head can send the brain jumping around inside the skull. This will disrupt the flow of information from one half of the brain to the other.

A new study focused on a dense bundle of nerve fibers that are known as the corpus callosum. This normally serves the right hemispheres of the brain in order to talk to each other. When the wires are crisscrossing, it can …read more