These days, everyone seems to know about the frontal lobes; the parts of the brain that continue to develop through our teens and into our early twenties. To be more precise, the area that is commonly ...

The brain's frontal lobe may be organized in a front-to-back continuum, with concrete decision-making occurring toward the back of the lobe and abstract thought toward the front, according to a recent ...

Levels of grey matter in two parts of the brain may be linked to a desire to start smoking during adolescence and the strengthening of nicotine addiction, a new study has shown. A team of scientists, ...

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Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

There are almost 60,000 very LBW (VLBW) infants born in the United States annually (1). Survival has improved in recent decades; however, morbidity is high. Unfortunately, even premature children with ...

E.G. (a pseudonym) is an accomplished woman in her early 60s: She is a college graduate and has an advanced professional degree. She has a stellar vocabulary—in the 98th percentile, according to tests ...

Glioblastoma Multiforme (Frontal Lobe). T1-weighted axial MRI. Note the large mass in the deep left frontal lobe with central necrosis and surrounding edema. Also note the prominent enhancement with ...

In primates with a small foveal region of densely packed photoreceptors in their retinae that provide high acuity vision, each eye is moved about by six extraocular muscles, innervated by neurons in ...

People with very severe frontal lobe damage to both the left and right frontal lobes can show all these symptoms, but people with milder frontal lobe damage demonstrate just some of them, and in some ...