Brain, Vol. 125, No. 8, 1782-1792,
August 2002
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The functional significance of perinatal corpus callosum damage: an fMRI study in young adults
1 Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College and 2 Perinatal Brain Research Group, Department of Paediatrics, University College London Medical School, London, UK
Correspondence to: A. M. Santhouse, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UKE-mail: a.santhouse{at}iop.kcl.ac.uk
We used functional MRI (fMRI) to establish the functional significance of corpus callosum damage in young adults who had been born very preterm. Seven subjects from a cohort of individuals who had been born at <33 weeks gestation and who had sustained callosal damage visualized on structural MRI were compared while they carried out auditory and visual tasks requiring callosal transfer with nine very preterm subjects with corpora callosa of normal appearance on structural MRI, and with seven full-term controls. The very preterm subjects with damaged corpora callosa had significantly different activation patterns compared with the two control groups. In the visual task, additional activity was seen in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of the damaged callosum group, possibly because the task was accomplished by storing information in working memory. On the auditory task, a deficit of activity was seen in the right temporal lobe of the callosum group. The findings reveal a plasticity of function compensating for early damage to the corpus callosum.
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