Toronto, CANADA -- A new study sheds light on why brain injury patients have difficulty performing tasks consistently -- a necessary requirement for holding a job. The findings may influence how ...

Social cognition is thought to be impaired in patients with prefrontal vascular lesions and in those with the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia, according to several clinical reports.

The frontal lobes are the largest part of the human brain, and damage to this area can result in profound impairments in reasoning and decision making. Neuroscientists studied brain-lesion patients to ...

Tuberous sclerosis complex is associated with radiologically visible abnormalities of brain structure, principally tubers and subependymal nodules. We reviewed the literature on neuroimaging of tubers ...

A new study provides a novel theory for how delusions arise and why they persist. NYU Langone Medical Center researcher Orrin Devinsky, MD, performed an in-depth analysis of patients with certain ...

Various surgical brain ablation procedures for the treatment of refractory depression were developed in the twentieth century. Most notably, key target sites were (i) the anterior cingulum, (ii) the ...

Memory function is vulnerable to a variety of pathologic processes including neurodegenerative diseases, strokes, tumors, head trauma, hypoxia, cardiac surgery, malnutrition, attention-deficit ...

What caused a previously healthy, 55-year-old woman to develop neurological symptoms including right-sided headache, confusion, blurry vision, and numbness and weakness affecting her right arm and leg ...

A doctor has unveiled the moment she found a “wiggly” worm inside a patient’s head in an “unprecedented” case in worldwide medical history. The 64-year-old woman, living in New South Wales, Australia ...

Golfer Gary Woodland made a stunning announcement on Wednesday: In just 19 days, he'll be having brain surgery. In a short statement posted to social media, the 2019 U.S. Open champion revealed that ...