There’s much to learn regarding the parietal lobes, such as their function and location. The parietal lobes are responsible for sensory information, visual processing, and coordinating movement, and ...

Edward Kennedy announced in May 2008 that he was suffering from a brain tumor, a malignant glioma, in his left parietal lobe. He had surgery at Duke University in J ...

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 ...

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have found that a cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure Senator Edward Kennedy suffered over the weekend. Preliminary results from a brain biopsy show a ...

John Fetterman, a Democratic candidate in a highly watched Pennsylvania Senate race against television personality Mehmet Oz, known as Dr. Oz, suffered an ischemic stroke—the obstruction of a vessel ...

Balint syndrome is a rare neurological condition that affects visual perception. This may cause difficulty controlling eye movements and not seeing individual objects as part of a group. Hand-eye ...