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 ...

Social cognition is thought to be impaired in patients with prefrontal vascular lesions and in those with the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia, according to several clinical reports.

The contribution of medial temporal lobe structures to memory is well established. However recent brain-imaging studies have indicated that frontal cortex may also be involved in human memory ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 105, No. 28 (Jul. 15, 2008), pp. 9787-9792 (6 pages) Successful adaptation to changes in an animal's emotional and ...

A 54-year-old man with a medical history of hypertension presented to the emergency room after a single, generalized tonic-clonic seizure in August 2002. Work-up at the time included an MRI of the ...

* Seizure spread across the brain, not just origin, drives awareness loss * Findings may inspire //future treatments like brain stimulation Researchers have long known that seizures can affect ...

Herpes Simplex Encephalitis: (Left) T1-weighted axial MRI; (Middle) T1-weighted with gadolinium axial MRI; (Right) T2-weighted axial MRI. Note the prominent lesion in the right temporal lobe. With ...

A MRI image of the patient’s brain next to a photo of the roundworm removed from the patient’s right frontal lobe. Credit: Hossain M, et al. A live, wriggling parasitic roundworm, 80 mm long, was ...

Herpes Simplex Encephalitis (remote case): Flair axial MRIs. Note the abnormal right temporal lobe, which has shrunk in size with cystic changes denoting encephalomalacia. In addition, there is bright ...