A new study has highlighted how physical activity protects the brain against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, showing that exercise is linked to making the brain larger.Conducted by ...
The anatomy of the brain involves key regions including the brain stem, cerebellum, lobes of the cerebral cortex, and specific glands (the pituitary, for example) needed to maintain life and health.
Balint's syndrome usually results from damage to both posterior regions of the parietal lobes, near the occipital lobes. The parietal lobes are the areas of your brain that let you know where you are, ...
Sanja Jelic, MD, is a board-certified pulmonologist and sleep specialist who teaches in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at the Columbia University College of ...
Each of the hemispheres contains four lobes: the frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital lobes. These lobes are specialized to do certain things. For example, the frontal lobe specializes in ...
Vision, one of our primary ways of interacting with the world, is processed in the occipital lobe. A stroke here can dramatically alter how we perceive our surroundings. A fractured view From ...