It resembles damage to the parietal lobe (1) —a condition called Bálint’s syndrome. So a zombie will fixate on you, but if you can distract it, it might lose track of you entirely.

The parietal lobe, located near the back and top of the head, is part of the cerebral cortex. It is involved in the reception and processing of sensory information from the body. It controls goal ...

The brain is divided into areas which are each responsible for different areas of functioning. The brain can be divided into three basic units: the forebrain, the midbrain and the hindbrain. These ...

Have scientists discovered why some have a "talent" for religion? Feb. 10, 2010— -- Medically speaking, it was just brain surgery. But for some patients, it was a spiritual reawakening ...

Real-Time Magnetic Resonance-Guided Stereotactic Laser Amygdalohippocampotomy for Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Neurosurgery, 2014; 74 (6): 569 DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000343 ...

After analyzing MRI scans of almost 8,000 children, investigators observed abnormal connectivity in the brain networks involved in memory processing and auditory processing among those with ADHD ...

Scientists led by UCL (University College London) have induced dyscalculia in subjects without the maths learning difficulty for the first time. The study, which finds that the right parietal lobe ...