Michel Thiebaut De Schotten1,2, Flavio
Dell'Acqua1,3, Stephanie Forkel1,4, Marco Catani1,3
1Natbrainlab, Institute of
Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom; 2Hpital de la Salptrire,
CRICM-INSERM UMRS 975, Paris, France; 3Department of Neuroimaging
Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom; 4Department
of Forensic & Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry,
London, United Kingdom
Until the advent of DTI, our knowledge of white matter anatomy was based on a small number of influential 19th and early 20th century post-mortem dissection atlases. These atlases emphasize the average anatomy of representative subjects and a symmetrical anatomical organization of both brain hemispheres is generally taken for granted. Here, we used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) tractography to address the question of the white matter interhemispheric differences and its interaction with the gender for the major lateralized tracts.