The conductor in our heads lives in the brain's frontal lobes, basically above our eyes.
For example, the frontal lobes help with organization, time management, and decision-making, all areas that people with ADD struggle with.
The research team suggest ecstasy targets the frontal lobes of the brain, which are related to memory and organising responses.
The frontal lobes of the brain, in particular, have enlarged dramatically in humans over the last half million years.
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The involvement of the frontal lobes is significant for another reason, though: it is the place where Phineas Gage took his hit.
This has led him to conclude that the structures of the brain used for musical memory "might be the superior temporal gyrus or the frontal lobes".
All participants showed increased activity in the frontal lobes of the brain when the information given was better than expected, indicating active processing of the information to recalculate an estimate.
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The solution is to force ourselves to consider this fact--to ask ourselves how much the future pleasures that our frontal lobes are simulating rely on comparisons that we won't be making when the future actually happens.
Four different studies done in the past decade using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) all found a slight reduction in the size of four regions of the brain: the corpus callosum, the basal ganglia, the frontal lobes, and the cerebellar vermis.
McKee immunostained samples of his brain tissue, and saw big splotches of tau all over the frontal and temporal lobes.
Robert Coben, a neuropsychologist on Long Island, has recently published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Neurotherapy a study of autistic children who, by playing special computer games, have improved connections among neurons in the frontal and temporal lobes, resulting in fewer repetitive behaviors, better socialization and improved language skills.
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