Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is one of the most common types of dementia that hits before the age of 65. Although symptoms ...

Toronto, CANADA -- A new study sheds light on why brain injury patients have difficulty performing tasks consistently -- a necessary requirement for holding a job. The findings may influence how ...

Discover how studying the breakdown of language following a stroke has finally revealed the hidden machinery of one of ...

The “frontal lobe syndrome” as it is commonly called, is a loose collection of symptoms frequently observed in patients who suffer prefrontal lobe dysfunction—that is, these brain areas no longer work ...

"Seeing as psychopathic behavior is similar to that of a person with brain damage, it could be that it could benefit from similar forms of treatment," said Dr. Simone Shamay-Tsoory, who conducted the ...

The brain's frontal lobe may be organized in a front-to-back continuum, with concrete decision-making occurring toward the back of the lobe and abstract thought toward the front, according to a recent ...

Gayle was hurled into the windshield when her husband’s car broadsided a pickup truck that had rolled through a stop sign. Her forehead splintered the glass. She regained consciousness in the ...

According to mental health specialists, the human brain's frontal lobe is not fully mature until we reach the age of 25, which explains the impulsive decisions many make in their teens that, looking ...