Asked to resolve hypothetical dilemmas -- such as tossing a person from a bridge into the path of a trolley to save five others -- people with damage to their ventromedial prefrontal cortex tended ...

Thirty-three of the 121 participants had an injury to the medial prefrontal cortex, 17 had an injury elsewhere in the brain, while 71 had no brain damage but were of the same age as the others ...

"We were able to work with a large sample of participants with an uncommonly specific damage to the medial prefrontal cortex. This gave us an opportunity to very specifically look at whether this ...

Other important areas in this lobe are the prefrontal cortex and the ... activated to help you understand them. Damage to any region of the cerebral cortex is typically caused by tumors ...

Frontal lobe damage can lead to a wide variety of symptoms It is the largest of four paired lobes in the brain’s cerebral cortex. It is situated directly behind the forehead, and it contributes ...

New Delhi: Damage to the 'medial' region of the prefrontal cortex -- the brain region that helps with planning and achieving goals -- could make one more impulsive and likely to be influenced by ...