For drug-resistant epileptics, surgery is often the only way to stop seizures. But for those with frontal lobe epilepsy, it's not always successful. New research has uncovered brain connections ...

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Analysts showed higher levels of activity in their frontal lobes. Insightfuls showed more activity in posterior brain areas, specifically, the temporal and parietal lobes. A large body of research has ...

Anderson and Harvey (1996) found greater neuronal density in the right frontal lobe. Kigar et al. (1997) reported increased glia:neuron ratio in the bilateral temporal neocortices.

By gently stimulating the brain’s frontal lobe (part of the neocortex) in sync with the electrical waves of the hippocampus during sleep, the team improved the accuracy of recognition memory ...

As she did, they looked for evidence of language activity in her left frontal lobe. Then they compared this brain activity to around 90 neurotypical controls (similar data from people with intact ...

You’d never guess that Elyse G. has a black hole in her brain. Meet her on the street, and it’d be impossible to tell she’s lacking a chunk of neural tissue about the size of a small fist.

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