It is not known whether the temporal lobe will "recover" given time away from such sleep-disrupting working patterns.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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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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.
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.
The results suggest that these emotions are handled in the medial prefrontal cortex (the middle of the front of the frontal lobe), the left posterior superior temporal sulcus (one of the furrows towards the side of the brain) and the visual cortex (towards the back of the brain).
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