Frontotemporal dementia causes striking shifts in behavior, emotion, and communication—making loved ones seem like different ...

The temporal lobe is part of the cerebral cortex. It plays a role in memory, enables people to process sound and vision, and is crucial for recognizing objects and language. Dysfunction in the ...

Born without my left temporal lobe, a brain region thought to be critical for language, I’ve been a research subject for much of my life. By Helen Santoro I barreled into the world — a precipitous ...

Seizures can be predicted more than 30 minutes before onset in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, opening the door to a therapy using electrodes that could be activated to prevent seizures from ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...

Temporal lobe attention deficit disorder (ADD) is not a recognized medical condition. Some doctors and clinics claim that it is one of seven subtypes of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ...