There’s much to learn regarding the parietal lobes, such as their function and location. The parietal lobes are responsible for sensory information, visual processing, and coordinating movement, and ...

The cerebral cortex of your brain is the outermost layer. It's the part of the brain that appears wrinkled because it has a lot of folds. Your cerebral cortex is divided into two hemispheres. Each ...

Our brains actively construct vision in near-darkness, blending residual light with memory and prediction. Even with minimal visual input, the brain ...

Mild cognitive impairment is linked to blood vessel dysfunction in the brain's temporal lobes - the seat of memory - according to a new USC-led study. The findings, seen in people with and without ...

For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that ...

Could disrupting your internal clock be the key to treating Alzheimer’s? A surprising new study, published in the journal ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...

A man whose skull and brain were skewered with a metal rod, which was concealed in the soil on the farm he was working in Portugal, has survived the trauma. When machinery ran into the rod, it was ...

Village Caregiving reports that frontotemporal dementia is a progressive brain disease affecting behavior, speech, and memory, with no known cure yet.