Long-term exposure to nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter may harm cognitive health, particularly language ability, ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The new ...

(For more, see Left Brain - Right Brain.) The cerebral hemispheres are commonly mapped out based on four large regions—the frontal lobe, the temporal lobe, the parietal lobe, and the occipital ...

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting the frontal and temporal lobes that ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different to our closest relatives. Our ...

The temporal lobe is one of the parts of the brain that has changed the most over time. "Several factors may have contributed to this," Ms. Pearson said. "There are popular theories around brain ...

In the first study of its kind, the researchers examined 84 people with temporal lobe epilepsy (epilepsy arising from the temporal lobe at the sides of the head) and hippocampal sclerosis (a ...

to avoid damaging the parts of the brain that are needed for memory to work well." In the first study of its kind, the researchers examined 84 people with temporal lobe epilepsy (epilepsy arising ...

More information: Giorgio Fiore et al, Cortico-hippocampal networks underpin verbal memory encoding in temporal lobe epilepsy, Brain Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcaf067 ...