From 1961 to 1989, the city of Berlin in Germany was separated into two halves by the Berlin Wall. When the wall came down, German citizens were then free to go back and forth between the two halves of the city as they pleased. Which of the following parts of your brain serves as a similar boundary between the two cerebral hemispheres?
A) the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis
B) the central sulcus
C) the corpus callosum
D) the putamen

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The corpus callosum is a bundle of nerve fibers that connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres. This structure serves as an important communication pathway between the two halves of the brain, allowing for the integration of information and coordinated function. The other structures listed (bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, central sulcus, and putamen) do not serve this function.

From 1961 to 1989, the City of Berlin in Germany