Medial temporal lobectomy is effective in improving seizure outcomes among patients with drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy.

In this cross-sectional study, emergency department visits for firearm injury were found to be highest between ... a major public health issue in the United States, but the lack of temporal data can ...

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting the frontal and temporal lobes that regulate higher cognitive brain functions such as personality, behavior ...

Objective We sought to augment the presurgical workup of medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy by creating a supervised machine learning technique that uses diffusion-weighted imaging to ...

It was a case in the 19th century that provided compelling evidence of how frontal lobe damage could fundamentally alter personality. Phineas Gage was an American railroad construction foreman who ...

Proponents of this theory say that temporal lobe ADD occurs due to overactivity, underactivity, or damage in this part of the brain. However, there is no scientific evidence to support the ...

But when an accident at work caused a metal rod to go through his skull, the damage to his frontal lobe caused him to become childish, disrespectful and impulsive. Gage showed 19th-century ...

Purpose: We tried to establish the normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) model of temporal lobe injury of recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients after two courses of intensity ...

Objectives: Initial precipitating injury (IPI) such as febrile convulsion and intracranial infection will increase the susceptibility to epilepsy. It is still unknown if the functional deficits differ ...

The cerebellum (“little brain”) is a fist-sized portion of the brain located at the back of the head, below the temporal and occipital lobes and above the brainstem. Like the cerebral cortex, it has ...

Buried deep inside the temporal lobe is the hippocampus (hip-o-CAM-pus ... This is because seizures can damage the area where the word is stored, as well as the communication lines that carry or ...