John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

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 ...

When it comes to tau tangles, cortical deposits receive the lion’s share of scientists’ attention, but it is the tiny subcortical regions where tangles originate that might set the course for ...

This work presents potentially important findings suggesting that a combination of transcranial stimulation approaches applied for a short period could improve memory performance after administration.

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can be hard to diagnose, because it is an uncommon type of dementia and does not cause memory problems at first. However, there are some ways to diagnose FTD including ...

In a new study published in Science Advances, researchers at Northwestern Medicine discovered that the brain regions used for ...

These findings have led to the concept of the prospective brain ... medial temporal lobe regions including the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus, and a posterior midline region near the ...

In this study, we used positron emission tomography (PET) to address the question of where in the auditory system temporal integration occurs. We have identified brain areas that show increased ...

3 Institute of Health and Care Sciences at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Objective To examine the association between midlife tobacco smoking and late-life brain ..

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 ...

This would include if you have had an MRI scan that shows a certain problem in your brain. Before making a referral ... This is particularly for people with temporal lobe epilepsy. This reason for ...

However, modern deep learning models offer powerful spatio-temporal representations for videos to represent hand movement and facial expressions. Despite their success in classification tasks, these ...