Shortly after, doctors diagnosed a brain tumor -- a malignant glioma in his left parietal lobe.
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In younger brains this kind of judgment happens on the right side of the parietal lobe.
Previous studies of novelty-seeking behaviour suggest that it is managed by the brain's right frontal lobe.
The surgeon removed one lobe and the isthmus of the barbell-shaped gland at the base of my neck.
It is not known whether the temporal lobe will "recover" given time away from such sleep-disrupting working patterns.
People with frontal lobe damage caused by accidents often find difficulty concentrating and are more easily distracted, research shows.
The frontal lobe of the brain is concerned with reasoning, planning, parts of speech and movement, emotions, and problem-solving.
It affects the frontal temporal lobe and progresses in various stages depending on form of damage the person has.
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The temporal lobe is concerned with perception and recognition of sounds and memory.
Bahadur Khan tightened a metal clamp around his ear, smushing his lobe, and connected it to a car by rope.
The tumor is a malignant glioma located in Kennedy's left parietal lobe about at the top of the head.
For example, the frontal lobe, which is linked to decision making and problem solving, is proportionally larger in women than in men.
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Follow-up tests showed that the reduced use of glucose by the temporal lobe and posterior cingulate had been reversed in all six people.
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The hippocampus, for example, is a part of the brain in the medial temporal lobe, which is very active in spatial navigation and memory.
Of course, removal of the lobe had also become popular recently.
Our results suggest that a neural network of frontal lobe areas acts as a central bottleneck of information processing that severely limits our ability to multitask.
Damage or abnormalities in the frontal lobe -- a brain area that regulates movement, inhibition, emotions and general behaviors -- has been linked to violent behavior.
They found that people with symptoms of dyslexia showed less neural activity in parts of the brain that are vital to reading (in the temporal lobe).
Because we have a large frontal lobe, we can close our eyes, simulate our actions and watch their consequences unfold on the little theater screens in our minds.
The temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex helps process language.
These reports suggested that religiosity originates specifically in the brain's temporal lobe, and that religious visions are the result of epileptic seizures that affect this part of the brain.
Three days later, Kennedy's doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said preliminary results from a brain biopsy showed a tumor in the left parietal lobe was responsible for the seizure.
Scans also show that the temporal lobe, which contains the hippocampus, and another brain region called the posterior cingulate use less glucose than a normal brain, suggesting they have shut down.
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The frontal lobe areas are associated with reasoning, planning, generating language, movement, and problem solving, which means that the mediums were experiencing reduced focus, lessened self-awareness and fuzzy consciousness during psychography.
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There is strong evidence that IQ has increased dramatically as more children spend more time in school, and there is even some evidence that higher IQ is correlated with delayed frontal lobe development.
He found that the aircrew given the shorter period to "turn around" after a jet-lagging flight had an area of the brain called the temporal lobe which was noticeably smaller than the others.
In particular, he has a patient called Elliot (in neuroscience, patients are often referred to by single names or initials to preserve their privacy) whose frontal lobe was damaged by a brain tumour.
Portable frontal lobe zappers are still (thankfully) infeasible.
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Scanning their brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the scientists found that a region involved in language processing - the temporal lobe, part of the prefrontal cortex - was activated during verbal learning in rested patients.
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