The pituitary gland is a structure located at the base of the brain, which dictates and manages ... The anterior lobe or frontal lobe of the pituitary gland is responsible for producing several ...

To determine which brain areas are necessary for a certain ability, researchers study patients with brain lesions (an area of damage in the brain) caused by stroke or brain tumors. This approach ...

Psychiatric neurosurgery, originally known as psychosurgery, involves operating on the brain to alter its function. Nastasic ...

A dad who died from an aggressive brain tumour had been suffering from a bizarre symptom before he was diagnosed. Barry Fair, ...

To assess which brain areas are necessary for certain abilities, researchers study patients with brain lesions – damaged areas – caused by stroke or brain tumors. This approach is known as ...

A 24-year-old woman from North Carolina, Hannah-Ireland Durando, discovered she has a rare and untreatable brain disorder ...

Brain metastases from prostate cancer (PC ... The symptoms of BMs are usually related to intracranial hypertension and frontal lobe syndrome (headache, paresis and seizures), but many patients ...

The Executive Brain is a popular account of the importance of the frontal lobes for human functioning. The autobiographical elements in the sections that deal with Goldberg's decision to leave ...

Her tumor has already demolished an egg-size portion of her left frontal lobe containing circuits important to personality, planning, and drive. Fortunately, the brain has some built-in redundancy ...

After forgetting a Taylor Swift chorus, a young woman was diagnosed with a rare and untreatable brain disorder.

The seat of a monkey’s love for bananas evidently is deep in the frontal lobe of the brain ... epilepsy and related seizures and brain tumors, always as a means of deciding exactly what surgery ...