I’ve cut brains in half, excised tumours – even removed entire lobes. The illusion of the self and free will survives it all ...

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

Scientists are developing a brain-computer interface to help patients with Broca’s aphasia regain speech. Broca’s aphasia ...

In Georgia, a 15-centimeter living parasite was found in the human brain. "This is the first confirmed case of a live ...

If it grows in the brain's left and right sides - known as the temporal lobe - you may experience memory, language problems or seizures ... A tumour in the parietal lobe could result in numbness ...

Ictal asystole was the most frequently reported pattern. Ictal asystole, ictal bradycardia and ictal AV block predominantly occurred during focal dyscognitive seizures in people with temporal lobe ...

The resulting seizures consisted of automatisms and myoclonus of ... This occurs in the absence of positive olfactory symptoms. Whether discharges from parietal and occipital lobe foci also engage the ...

The authors instead suggest that the hippocampus and the perirhinal cortex both play a role in recollection and familiarity, and that these two regions of the medial temporal lobe differ mainly in ...

They found that their measure of EI effectively distinguished between mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) and lateral neocortical epilepsy. Furthermore, in MTLE they found a statistically significant ...

Rodrigo Braga, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology's Division of Epilepsy and Clinical ... away from this sequence: the parietal memory network—located ...