The frontal lobe is a large part of the brain. It extends from the front of the brain almost halfway to the back, and it helps humans perform complex tasks, innovate, and imagine. Damage to the ...

bics.bwh.harvard.edu OBJECTIVE To investigate whether frontal lobe damage in humans disrupts the natural tendency to preferentially attend to novel visual events in the environment. METHODS Nine ...

Although there is a chapter on novel approaches to the assessment of frontal-lobe damage in traumatic brain injury, the authors focus largely on their own research output, rather than giving any ...

We attempted to capture the executive functioning deficits of patients with frontal lobe damage using a battery of laboratory tests and outcome questionnaires. The ability to detect change specific to ...

These provide a good description of some of the consequences of damage to frontal areas and ... displays many of the behavioral features of impaired frontal lobe function including immaturity ...

A patient is reported who displayed marked confabulation after frontal lobe damage, and whose pattern of performance on memory tests was not typically amnesic. He initially displayed both "fantastic" ...

Abstract: Patients with frontal lobe lesions were adminstered tests of paired-associate learning in which cue and response words are manipulated to increase interference across two study lists. In one ...

Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word “cat” is stuck on the tip of your tongue.  This phenomenon, known as Broca’s aphasia or expressive ...

Scientists are developing a brain-computer interface to help patients with Broca’s aphasia regain speech. Broca’s aphasia ...

It is sometimes called frontal lobe dementia and used to be called Pick’s disease ... It can help a person with dementia to live well, or to support a person with dementia to live well. Damage to the ...

Results Smoking in 1968–1969 (adjusted OR 1.85; 95% CI 1.12 to 3.04), in 1974–1975 (OR 2.37; 95% CI 1.39 to 4.04) and in 1980–1981 (OR 2.47; 95% CI 1.41 to 4.33) were associated with late-life frontal ...