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Interhemispheric commissure
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A relatively small commissure in the basal forebrain lying above the optic chiasm and anterior to the main columns of the fornix that connects homologous areas of the middle and inferior temporal gyri, including parts of the olfactory cortices (Fig. 1).
Anterior Commissure, Fig. 1
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Mendoza, J.E. (2018). Anterior Commissure. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_678
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