Frontotemporal dementia has gained significant attention in recent years after the family of actor Bruce Willis announced in ...

The view that the frontal lobes might achieve their executive control via whole new principles of brain function has been attractive. In fact several of the world's leading neuroimagers as well as ...

Seen in this view of the brain with about one quarter removed lengthwise, they control the learning (three in the front) and production (four in the back) of vocalizations. These seven neuron ...

When scientists turned off this 'filter' - by inducing reversible brain lesions in the frontal lobes of volunteers ...

The best view of the brain's motor cortex is from a brain that has been sliced in half. The image to the left displays a brain that has been sliced lengthwise, dividing the front and back halves ...

Blood is supplied to the brain by two major sets of arteries ... from a cerebral angiographic series. On the left is a frontal view from a right common carotid artery injection.

You’ll also need to understand two specific parts of the brain: the amygdala and the frontal lobes. The amygdalae are clusters of almond-shaped cells located in the brain’s base. Everyone has ...

A new study by neuroscientists shows that our brain deals with different forms of visual uncertainty during movements in distinct ways. Depending on the type of uncertainty, planning and execution of ...

What is the brain disease model of addiction? The disease model of addiction, which arose in the 1950s to counteract the view of addiction as a moral failing, is based on the observation that ...

Neuroscientists have observed for the first time how structures deep in the brain are activated when the ... noticed an icon flash onto a screen in front of them. The icon was designed so that ...