Neuroscientists have discovered how the brain distinguishes between visual motion occurring in the external world from that caused by the observer moving through it. Known as the 'motion-source ...

More than 2 years since the original trial data for lecanemab in Alzheimer's disease was published,1 and over 1·5 years since approval by the US Food and Drug Administration, brain volume data have ...

Encephalitis International has marked February 22 as World Encephalitis Day since 2014. The non-profit organisation ...

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 ...

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

IN her first interview since having brain surgery to remove a tumour ... and problems with speech or vision. A tumour in the parietal lobe could result in numbness or weakness in one side of ...

Central pain is not well understood, and it is believed to be the result of a complex response of the brain to the stroke injury, resulting in hypersensitivity. Most stroke survivors who have central ...

In a 2018 study conducted at Dartmouth College, 42 volunteers watched short video clips while scientists measured their brain activity ... in the inferior parietal lobe that have been linked ...

interventions targeting the left parietal lobe can lead to changes in the entire frontoparietal network during task execution. This may be related to the fact that the left brain, the site of ...

There was also an association between smoking in the last midlife examination (1980–1981) and parietal lobe atrophy. Being a temporary smoker was not associated with late-life brain lesions. There was ...

Early cortical activation associated with encoding of time intervals was observed in the right inferior parietal cortex and ... investigating the dynamics of brain activation patterns during ...

These findings have led to the concept of the prospective brain; an idea that a crucial ... cortex and parts of the medial temporal lobe (namely the hippocampus and the parahippocampal gyrus).