Their study had 18 controls and 31 participants with brain lesions, grouped by the affected regions of their frontal cortex. The lesion groups included people with damage to the ventromedial ...

Damage to frontal areas is common both because of the ... between various lateral and medial areas of the prefrontal cortex, evidence of specific differentiation of these areas in some tasks ...

In a new study published in PLOS Biology, a research team found that damage to distinct parts of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) were linked to being influenced by impulsive decision making by ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

People who have damage to a specific part of their brains are more likely to be impulsive, and new research has found that damage also makes them more likely to be influenced by other people.

The participant was paralyzed with damage to their C4/C5 vertebrae and ... "This prior work showed that certain brain areas (all in the frontal cortex) know about the intention to move up to ...