Toronto, CANADA -- A new study sheds light on why brain injury patients have difficulty performing tasks consistently -- a necessary requirement for holding a job. The findings may influence how ...

Executive performance, such as attention and memory, is associated with the frontal lobes. Researchers found specific structural changes in the prefrontal area and left cerebellum can predict ...

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 ...

April 1, 2010 — A new study shows a link between elevated levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), an indicator of low-grade inflammation, and decline in executive function but not ...

These days, everyone seems to know about the frontal lobes; the parts of the brain that continue to develop through our teens and into our early twenties. To be more precise, the area that is commonly ...

At 17, Alissa Afonina was a bright, studious college student. But that year, on a drive with her mother and her mom’s then-boyfriend, the car she was riding in sped around a curve and flipped three ...

Boston University doctors say they found evidence of severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brain of Phillip Adams, a former NFL player who killed six people and then himself in South Carolina ...