In 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that schizophrenia affects about 24 million people worldwide, and one ...

The largest part of the brain is the highly-evolved cerebrum. The topmost portion is divided into two hemispheres, each with four lobes, within which are many other subdivisions. The cerebral ...

The other was Heschl’s gyrus, a fold on the upper temporal lobe which hosts the auditory cortex (the cortex is the outermost layer of the brain). Better reading ability was linked to a larger ...

The brain comprises several different regions that are defined as four lobes on each side. According to the Alzheimer Society of Canada, the effects of Alzheimer’s may correspond to the areas of ...

FTD is an umbrella term for a group of dementias which mainly affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, which are responsible for such things as personality, behaviour, language and ...

An occipital stroke happens in the back of the brain. This lobe, or part of the brain, helps people to recognize what they see. That means strokes in the occipital lobe can cause vision changes, which ...

The frontal lobe is a large part of the brain. It extends from the front of the brain almost halfway to the back, and it helps humans perform complex tasks, innovate, and imagine. This article ...

including “uncinate seizures”, based on clinicopathological observations from patients with structural lesions and further supported by pioneering brain surgery. 1, 2 Falconer et al, however, studied ...

Brain function tests should be performed when fetishism such as that observed in the patient reported here is identified. There may be an association between decreased temporal lobe function and ...

A study published in Translational Psychiatry found that the brain’s synaptic pruning process — essentially “decluttering” unused neural pathways — peaks around this age, which could explain why so ...

Largest brain aging study points to possible connections between diet, inflammation, and brain health. Scientists at the ...