A new study has found that men recovering from alcohol use problems tend to have less brain tissue in areas linked to ...

Conclusion Longstanding tobacco smoking was mainly associated with atrophy in the frontal lobe cortex. A long-term stimulation of nicotine receptors in the frontal neural pathway might be harmful for ...

A new study published in the Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics suggests that the way the brain processes language and arithmetic facts may play an important role in how well middle-aged and older ...

Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia ... mapped out based on four large regions—the frontal lobe, the temporal lobe, the parietal lobe, and the ...

The boys are trying to think of things to do.” Part of the plan has been dubbed “operation Frontal Lobes,” and includes programs on the history of the U.S. Navy, the trial and death of ...

A patient is reported who displayed marked confabulation after frontal lobe damage, and whose pattern of performance on memory tests was not typically amnesic. He initially displayed both "fantastic" ...

Reading originates from better brain structure and size ... left hemisphere of the brain stood out- the anterior temporal lobe and Heschl’s gyrus. The study author Mikeal Roll further explained ...

For example, for as simple a task as remembering an image we have just seen, the brain connects the frontal lobe (which deals ... "Explaining how the structure of the brain gives rise to its ...

We also indicate ways in which the functions of the medial temporal lobe structures are different, and suggest that these structures work together in a cooperative and complementary way.