The cerebral cortex of your brain is the outermost layer. 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 ...

The occipital lobe is the part of the brain responsible for interpreting information from the eyes and turning it into what a person sees. It helps determine distance, depth, color, and other aspect ...

Neuroimaging is recommended for any case that is suspicious for stroke, particularly occipital stroke. MRI of the brain and brainstem revealed changes in both occipital lobes consistent with an old ...

"Turn off your mind, relax, and float down stream..." Maybe John Lennon was onto something when he wrote those words for the Beatles' song "Tomorrow Never Knows." It turns out that that reality and ...

Sept. 10, 2004 — Total dream loss is a distinct neuropsychological dysfunction caused by deep bilateral occipital lobe damage and can occur in a setting of normal sleep architecture, including REM ...

The parietal lobe is located near the center of the brain, behind the frontal lobe, in front of the occipital lobe, and above the temporal lobe. The parietal lobe contains an area known as the primary ...

A boy who had large parts of the right side of his brain removed due to a slow-growing tumor made a nearly full recovery in the three years after his surgery, with other areas of his brain ...

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 ...

The occipital lobe is the visual processing center of the mammalian brain. The primary visual cortex is Brodmann area 17, located in the interior portion of the occipital lobe at the calcarine sulcus ...