f functional commissurectomy (1148). These people can still become emotionally aroused, but canÆt say why or label the emotion. This could be because the anterior commissure connects the amygdala and the paleo-cortical parts in both hemispheres and the anterior temporal lobes, so would not be affected by commissurectomy. They further speculate that children below the age of puberty, when the corpus callosum fully matures, would react in the same way as the sexually abused women in their study. Childhood sexual abuse could result in repression of feelings, which would block the synchronized neural activity in right and left side neurons fulfilling functions for the emotional experience, and dismantling the neural connections (149). If this mechanism holds true, standard psychotherapeutic methods will not work for these women, and it will be necessary to undergo the time-consuming process of rebuilding the neural pathways for the emotions. Forms of non-verbal therapy need to be used, since the patients cannot verbalize their problems. For sexu
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