News tagged with temporal lobe
Fragile period of childhood brain development could underlie epilepsy
Aug 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A form of partial epilepsy associated with auditory and other sensory hallucinations has been linked to the disruption of brain development during early childhood, according to a study led ...
Oprah, Luke Skywalker and Maradona -- new study investigates how our brains respond to them
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Pictures paint concepts of a thousand words- now, for the first time, scientists studying the brain have worked out how words paint concepts in our minds.
A new look at how memory and spatial cognition are related
Aug 04, 2008 |
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In a study that sheds new light on how memory and spatial cognition are related to each other in the brain, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Veteran Affairs (VA) San Diego ...
Measuring brain atrophy in patients with mild cognitive impairment
Jun 16, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that a fully automated procedure called Volumetric MRI - which measures the "memory centers" of the brain and compares them to expected size ...
Analysis supports use of surgery to treat medication-resistant epilepsy
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Persons with temporal lobe epilepsy who do not respond to medication could receive a substantial gain in life expectancy and quality of life by undergoing surgery of the temporal lobe part of the brain, according to an analysis ...
