It's the part of the brain that appears wrinkled because it has a lot of folds. Your cerebral cortex is divided into two hemispheres. Each hemisphere is divided into four lobes.

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 lobes.

A new study from UC San Francisco challenges the traditional view of how the brain strings sounds together to form words and ...

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of our brain. The organ, housed inside the skull and protected by a bony covering called the cranium, controls thought, memory, emotion, vision, and ...

For EG, who is in her fifties and grew up in Connecticut, missing a large chunk of her brain has had surprisingly little effect on her life. She has a graduate degree, has enjoyed an impressive ...

But it all depends on which part of the lobe was disconnected and how much of it." Forkel added: "In this case, the metal was placed laterally, sparing the networks for memory and emotions.

Mild cognitive impairment is linked to blood vessel dysfunction in the brain's temporal lobes—the seat of memory—according to a new USC-led study.

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 ...