In early February 2016, after reading an article featuring a couple of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who were studying how the brain reacts to music, a woman felt inclined to ...

Born without my left temporal lobe, a brain region thought to be critical for language, I’ve been a research subject for much of my life. By Helen Santoro I barreled into the world — a precipitous ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Figure 2: Time-interval representations (autocorrelograms) of complex sounds that produce a pitch perception of 62.5 Hz. The ...

The human language system appears to recruit a broad network of frontal and temporal brain regions. Even though different aspects of language processing have by now been confidently apportioned to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Surgery for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy correlated with a reduction in imaging-defined brain age, indicating ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Most of the Interesting Brains Project participants featured in this story are using shortened forms of their names and/or pseudonyms to protect their privacy. You’d never guess that ...

What Is the Frontal Lobe? Your frontal lobe is one of four different sections (also called lobes) of your brain. The four lobes in your brain are called the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital ...

[IMAGES BELOW] Sustained complete resolution of temporal lobe brain metastasis and continued orbital tumor reduction after >18 months of treatment “Eye bulging” metastatic breast cancer patient had ...

The cerebral cortex is your brain’s outermost layer. It has a wrinkled appearance due to the grooves and folds that increase its surface area. Here, we look at the anatomy of the cerebral cortex and ...

Epileptic activity originating from one or more diseased brain regions in the temporal lobe is difficult to contain. Many patients with so-called temporal lobe epilepsy often do not respond to ...