Your cerebral cortex is divided into two hemispheres. Each hemisphere is divided into four lobes. The occipital lobe is the smallest lobe of your brain. It makes up around 12% of the surface area ...

The parietal lobe is located near the center of the brain, behind the frontal lobe, in front of the occipital lobe ... helps with the interpretation of images and spatial distances within them ...

Over nine years of sorting through countless brain images, Jerome J ... to show up more often in depressed patients. Their occipital lobes were often wrapped around each other.

The woman had damaged her occipital lobe, the part of the brain responsible for processing visual information, and at first lost her sight. A few days later she recovered, but then, to the doctors ...

Sept. 10, 2004 — Total dream loss is a distinct neuropsychological dysfunction caused by deep bilateral occipital lobe damage and can occur in a setting of normal sleep architecture, including ...

Charles Bonnet syndrome involves a gradual vision loss with visual hallucinations or phantom images. An ischemic stroke or tumor in the occipital lobe may cause it, notes research from 2021.