Frontotemporal dementia has gained significant attention in recent years after the family of actor Bruce Willis announced in ...

Walter Freeman intended to revolutionize the treatment of mental illnesses. Instead, he killed hundreds of his patients and went down in history as the man who introduced a truly barbaric surgery to ...

This is your brain, explained. The frontal lobe is often associated with what "makes us human". It's involved in cognitive processes such as reasoning, learning, creativity, attention and ...

Sipa via AP Images The 7-year-old boy who was shot in the head during the shooting at Lakewood Church last Sunday lost part of his frontal lobe. Samuel Moreno-Carranza, the son of the shooter ...

Each brain hemisphere (parts of the cerebrum) has four sections, called lobes: frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital. Each lobe controls specific functions. Sometimes called the “master gland,” ...

Even though modern humans are highly similar to our ancient Neanderthal cousins, there are some key differences between us—most notably, more neuron-packed frontal lobes. Now, researchers have ...

What happens during a focal seizure depends on which area (lobe) of the brain is affected, and whether the seizure spreads to affect other areas. Some people just experience one symptom during a focal ...

It is reported that ictal fear is not only associated with the epileptic discharges in the amygdala, but also occur when the anterior cingulate cortex, orbital frontal cortex, and temporal lobes are ...

2006), reduced anterior cingulate activity (Kana et al., 2007), together with atypical timing in the recruitment of frontal cortex. Since inhibitory control largely depends on the slowly maturing ...