A new study has found the strongest evidence yet that what sets humans apart from other primates may be found in the brain's frontal lobes, particularly in an area the size of a "billiard ball" called ...

The frontal lobe helps with thinking, planning, memory, and self-control. To keep your frontal lobe healthy, do puzzles, ...

Whether it’s joy or anger, we’re wired to catch and spread emotions. Here's how to inoculate ourselves against negative ones. Your brain has four major lobes: frontal, temporal, parietal and occipital ...

Some people may excel at riding a bike, tying a tie, or playing the piano, but those same people may find it difficult to explain or teach those skills to someone else. These motor skills are learned ...

A loving relationship can be an oasis in uncertain times, but nurturing it requires attention, honesty, openness, vulnerability, and gratitude. In Why Self-Control Fails in Dementia, I explained how ...

The issue of the development of an adolescence brain is suddenly thrust into the limelight during one of Boston’s most significant court cases in history…the federal trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the ...

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 ...

A lobotomy is a type of brain surgery that involves severing the connection between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain. Lobotomies became popular in the 1930s as a treatment for certain ...

When Bruce Willis' family announced he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal lobe dementia last week, it came after his family had spent years seeking answers. That's not uncommon, said Dr. Steven ...

Bruce Willis, the 'Die Hard' star, is battling frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a progressive brain disease diagnosed two years ...

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is one of the most common types of dementia that hits before the age of 65. Although symptoms typically begin in the late 60s, it can strike as young as 30 or as old as ...