Lobes of the Brain The cerebral hemispheres are commonly mapped out based on four large regions—the frontal lobe, the temporal lobe, the parietal lobe, and the occipital lobe—with one of each ...

The Executive Brain is a popular account of the importance of the frontal lobes for human functioning ... tasks such as processing words, faces and pictures, doing mental calculations and mental ...

The frontal lobe is a large part of the brain ... An MRI creates a two- or three-dimensional image of the brain using a magnetic field and radio waves. A CT scan creates a 3D image from multiple ...

Wang (left) and Cao Researchers at WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have identified specific neuronal cells ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have identified specific neuronal cells that are essential to our understanding of other people. Runnan ...

Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word 'cat' is stuck on the tip of your tongue. This phenomenon, known as Broca's aphasia or expressive ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual ...

The word 'frontotemporal' refers to the front of the brain (frontal) and sides of the brain (temporal), which are most affected by this type of dementia. Frontotemporal dementia is most often ...

Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word "cat" is stuck on the tip ...