A new study from the University of California, San Francisco has upended a long-held assumption in neuroscience about how the ...

Researchers discovered that a different part of the brain handles stringing sounds and words together into coherent sentences ...

A University of Toronto scientist has discovered the brain's frontal lobe is involved in pain transmission to the spine. If his findings in animals bear out in people, the discovery could lead to ...

Infections caused by Naegleria fowleri can lead to symptoms including fever, seizures, hallucinations and death.

Brain frontal lobes not sole center of human intelligence, comparative research suggests Date: May 13, 2013 Source: Durham University Summary: Human intelligence cannot be explained by the size of ...

This could explain why people can react quickly with an automatic response to an event that is first perceived in sensory areas, such as seeing an oncoming vehicle and slamming on the brakes ...

On July 28, 2025, a deadly shooting at a New York City office building-home to both the National Football League (NFL) ...

The frontal lobes are an area in the brain of mammals located at the front of each cerebral hemisphere, and are thought to be critical for advanced intelligence.

Brain evolution The commonly-held belief that human brain evolution was driven by large frontal lobes is a myth, an anthropological study has found. The study, published today in the Proceedings ...

Damage to the brain's frontal lobe is known to impair one's ability to think and make choices. And now scientists say they've pinpointed the different parts of this brain region that preside over ...