• In the brain a sulcus is a groove formed in the stage of gyrification by the folding of the cortex. (wikipedia.org)
  • and the frontal cortex and nucleus accumbens, which are both believed to be involved in assessing the attractiveness of a face. (scienceblogs.com)
  • In contrast, more extensive brain regions in the auditory temporal cortex were activated at the stimulus-rate frequency. (elifesciences.org)
  • In particular, the relative importance of inter-individual differences in the medio-temporal lobe (MTL) and the lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) for associative and item recognition in older adults is still ambiguous. (uni-frankfurt.de)
  • Cortical thickness in the ventro-medial prefrontal cortex was positively correlated with associative recognition performance, above and beyond any relationship between item recognition performance and cortical thickness in the same region and between associative recognition performance and brain structure in the MTL (parahippocampus). (uni-frankfurt.de)
  • The brains of autistic individuals experience widespread molecular changes across the cerebral cortex. (additudemag.com)
  • The most differential changes occur in the primary visual cortex, according to a recent study published in Nature that analyzed 11 cortical areas of the brain. (additudemag.com)
  • 1 Most molecular profiling studies highlight changes limited to the frontal and temporal cortex. (additudemag.com)
  • When compared to control samples, ASD brains demonstrated significantly reduced gene expression between regions of the cerebral cortex. (additudemag.com)
  • The cerebral cortex is the outer brake-like layer of the brain and allows individuals to use complex skills, live in social settings, use language as well as create tools (Gibson, 2002). (neurotray.com)
  • Each hemisphere of the cerebral cortex is divided into two hemispheres and subdivided into four lobes, each of them is separated by folds known as fissures. (neurotray.com)
  • The frontal lobe is responsible for memory, thinking, judgement, and planning, this starts from the front of the brain and moves over the top in the cortex. (neurotray.com)
  • Longer delays in treatment led to greater volume loss in the thalamus, caudate, and cerebellum, and to greater the cortical thinning in the frontal and temporal lobes, and cingulate cortex. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The CC regions through which the superior frontal cortex passes extend into the posterior body. (nih.gov)
  • Fibers arising from the parietal lobe and occipital lobe run mainly through the splenium, while fibers arising from the sensory-motor cortex pass through the isthmus. (nih.gov)
  • and medial orbitofrontal cortex (MOFC), among other brain regions. (bibliotecapleyades.net)
  • The brain's frontal lobes-especially the prefrontal cortex, which governs reasoning, decision making, judgment, and impulse control-are the last parts to reach full development in adolescents. (aecf.org)
  • Hematoxylin and eosin stain of the left frontal cortex from a patient with primary progressive aphasia. (medscape.com)
  • The occipital lobe of the cortex, located at the back of the head, receives and processes visual information. (medscape.com)
  • The frontal lobe is the part of the cerebral cortex responsible for voluntary movement and attention as well as goal-directed behavior. (medscape.com)
  • The medial frontal cortex (sometimes called the medial prefrontal area) is important in arousal and motivation. (msdmanuals.com)
  • If lesions in this area are large and extend to the most anterior part of the cortex (frontal pole), patients sometimes become abulic (apathetic, inattentive, and markedly slow to respond). (msdmanuals.com)
  • Dr. Peter then extended her studies to understand the intricacies of the brain's frontal lobe with Elkhonon Goldberg , internationally renown clinical professor of neurology at New York University School of Medicine. (drorlipeter.com)
  • Using MRI technologies, brain scans of subjects with Down syndrome showed some compromise in the tissues of brain's frontal lobe compared to those from the control group. (medindia.net)
  • More precisely, the human FPl has access to both medial and lateral cortical circuits through its extensive connections with other frontal, parietal and temporal association areas. (nature.com)
  • The occipital lobe is located at the back of the head behind the parietal and temporal lobes. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The ability to comprehend language is concentrated in 2 areas in the parietal and temporal lobes. (medscape.com)
  • The parietal lobe, which sits on top of the temporal and occipital lobes, receives sensory information, in the sensory projection areas, from all over the body and figures in spatial abilities. (medscape.com)
  • In September 2017, Kristina was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor in her right frontal lobe. (caringbridge.org)
  • The infiltrates extended from the left into the right frontal lobe, but were absent in the temporal and parietal lobes. (upmc.edu)
  • [ 7 ] Less commonly, cases of isolated right frontal or temporal degeneration have been reported. (medscape.com)
  • As predicted from classical models of language organization based on lesion data, cortical activation associated with language processing was strongly lateralized to the left cerebral hemisphere and involved a network of regions in the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes. (jneurosci.org)
  • These results suggest cortical regions are more molecularly homogeneous in autistic individuals and pronounced in the posterior region of the brain. (additudemag.com)
  • Soon after an individual's initial infection with HIV, damage to brain volume and cortical thickness progressively worsens until anti-retroviral treatment is started, a new study shows. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Once combination retroviral treatment began, the volume changes in these regions stopped, and cortical thickness increased slightly in the frontal and temporal lobe, the study found. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Reference: "Longitudinal Trajectories of Brain Volume and Cortical Thickness in Treated and Untreated Primary HIV Infection" by Ryan Sanford, Beau M Ances, Dieter J Meyerhoff, Richard W Price, Dietmar Fuchs, Henrik Zetterberg, Serena Spudich and D Louis Collins, 24 April 2018, Clinical Infectious Diseases . (scitechdaily.com)
  • Population maps of the corpus callosum (CC) and cortical lobe connections were generated by combining cortical gray matter parcellation with the diffusion tensor fiber tractography of individual subjects. (nih.gov)
  • This method is based on the fact that the cortical lobes of both hemispheres are interconnected by the corpus callosal fibers. (nih.gov)
  • In general, dorsal or medial cortical lobes project fibers through the dorsal region of the CC, while lateral cortical lobes project fibers through the ventral region of the CC. The probabilistic subdivision of the CC by connecting cortical gray matter provides a more precise understanding of the CC. (nih.gov)
  • I have a brain lesion in the deep white matter and sub cortical area of my right partial lobe extending into a little bit of my frontal lobe. (alphabetbrains.com)
  • The key, Ramachandran speculates, may be the limbic system, which comprises interior regions of the brain that govern emotion and emotional memory, such as the amygdala and hypothalamus . (bibliotecapleyades.net)
  • Adolescents and young adults begin to rely less on the limbic system-the emotional center of the brain-in making decisions and more on the frontal lobes, the seat of judgment and impulse control. (aecf.org)
  • More severe cognitive deficits are seen in individuals with associated autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that also extend to other areas of neurobehavioral function, such as adaptive behavior and sensory deficits. (rarediseasesnetwork.org)
  • Elucidating the neural implementation underpinning the dynamic construction of mental imagery is critical to understanding high-order cognitive function in the human brain. (elifesciences.org)
  • We used cognitive training, diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI), and structural MRI to investigate plasticity of the white-matter tracts that connect the left and right hemisphere of the frontal lobes. (uni-frankfurt.de)
  • 2 Therefore, it is possible that mental illness is not caused by damage to a particular brain region, since PSD is a unique cognitive and affective dysfunction. (dovepress.com)
  • A link between the health of the brain tissue associated with cognitive functioning and the presence of dementia in Down's syndrome patients has been discovered by researchers at Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky. (medindia.net)
  • The results indicate a compelling progression of deterioration in the integrity of white matter in the brains of our study participants commensurate with their cognitive health. (medindia.net)
  • Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the study was the correlation between the cognitive abilities of participants with Down Syndrome and the integrity of their white matter- those who had higher motor skill coordination and better learning and memory ability had healthier frontal white matter connections. (medindia.net)
  • The week of Thanksgiving, she had an extended frontal craniotomy surgery to remove the tumor. (caringbridge.org)
  • Isla & Annaliese know their Mama had a brain tumor & that radiation therapy will follow surgery in order to kill the remaining cells, but because they know that cancer can be a hard disease, the word is not being used around them. (caringbridge.org)
  • The tumor obliterates the left olfactory tract and extends into the left frontal lobe to the level of the midbrain. (cdc.gov)
  • Patients with brain abscess may exhibit a variety of nonspecific symptoms, simulating the presence of neurologic disease such as ischemic stroke or an intracranial tumor mass. (medscape.com)
  • They are the most common primary brain tumor in adults. (wanderluce.com)
  • A brain tumor diagnosis can sound like a life-threatening situation. (wanderluce.com)
  • In fact, meningioma is the most common brain tumor, accounting for about 30 percent of them. (wanderluce.com)
  • A meningioma is a tumor that arises from the meninges - the membranes that surround your brain and spinal cord. (wanderluce.com)
  • Although not technically a brain tumor, it is included in this category because it may compress or squeeze the adjacent brain, nerves and vessels. (wanderluce.com)
  • What are the symptoms of a left frontal lobe tumor? (wanderluce.com)
  • 2 Brain Tumor Program at Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach, USA . (scirp.org)
  • Brain tumor surgery and stroke. (alphabetbrains.com)
  • Complications on second brain surgery for pituitary tumor. (alphabetbrains.com)
  • Metastasis to the brain is the most feared complication of systemic cancer and the most common intracranial tumor in adults. (medscape.com)
  • The article will talk in detail about what the hemispheres of the brain are, what they control, and their functions. (neurotray.com)
  • The brain has two hemispheres, the right and the left. (neurotray.com)
  • The two hemispheres of the brain are connected by the corpus callosum. (neurotray.com)
  • What is the Cerebrum and how is it related to the hemispheres of the brain? (neurotray.com)
  • Cerebrum: is the largest part of the brain and is composed of right and left hemispheres. (fabulousfrocksofatlanta.com)
  • Actually this 150 ml of fluid is contained in the ventricles of the brain in the cisterns around the brain and in the subarachnoid space around both the cerebral hemispheres and the spinal cord. (biologydiscussion.com)
  • The cerebral hemispheres are what most people think of when they think of the brain. (medscape.com)
  • Although specific functions are attributed to each lobe, most activities require coordination of multiple areas in both hemispheres. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Corticography also showed interictal discharges in the frontal lobe, though seizures were of parietal origin. (fieldtriptoolbox.org)
  • Nearly a century later, in 1975, neurologist Norman Geschwind of the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital first clinically described a form of epilepsy in which seizures originate as electrical misfirings within the temporal lobes, large sections of the brain that sit over the ears. (bibliotecapleyades.net)
  • However, previous studies in which brain activity was analysed using functional neuroimaging , magnetoencephalography and event-related potentials failed to show any such abnormalities. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Volumetric MRI studies based on manual labeling of selected anatomical structures have provided in vivo evidence that brain abnormalities associated with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) extend beyond the hippocampus. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The purpose of this study was to determine whole-brain GM and WM changes in TLE and to investigate the relationship between these abnormalities and clinical parameters. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Several microstructural brain abnormalities have been reported of major depressive disorder (MDD) in novel imaging techniques in vivo. (dovepress.com)
  • In its most general form, this model proposes a frontal, "expressive" area for planning and executing speech and writing movements, named after Broca ( Broca, 1861 ), and a posterior, "receptive" area for analysis and identification of linguistic sensory stimuli, named after Wernicke ( Wernicke, 1874 ). (jneurosci.org)
  • Posterior fossa / petrous meningioma forms on the underside of the brain and accounts for approximately 10 percent of meningiomas. (wanderluce.com)
  • When the scope was introduced through the widened frontal ostium the posterior table of the frontal sinus was found to be eroded. (drtbalu.co)
  • Type IIIa: In this type the mucocele erodes the posterior wall of the frontal sinus with minimal or no intracranial involvement. (drtbalu.co)
  • Type Va: In this type there is erosion of both anterior and posterior walls of frontal sinus without or minimal intracranial extension. (drtbalu.co)
  • The posterior part of the brain. (fabulousfrocksofatlanta.com)
  • Upon admission the patient showed marked fatigue, confusion and apathy, and a contrast-enhancing round lesion, 1 cm in diameter, was seen in the left temporal lobe on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). (upmc.edu)
  • A second MRI, performed one month after the first, showed attenuation of the previous lesion, with general signal enhancement in the leptomeninges, a heterogeneous contrast-enhancing lesion measuring 1x2 cm in the left frontal lobe, and a smaller lesion near the left sylvian fissure (Figure 1 ). (upmc.edu)
  • Modafinil works by creating a lesion in the 4th (solar plexus) chakra that extends up to the 6th (forehead) chakra. (astrologycom.com)
  • Although partly in conflict with the classical model of language localization, these findings are generally compatible with reported lesion data and provide additional support for ongoing efforts to refine and extend the classical model. (jneurosci.org)
  • Meningiomas are brain tumors that develop from the membrane (the "meninges") that covers the brain and spinal cord. (wanderluce.com)
  • The brain stem is located underneath the temporal lobes and extended down to the spinal cord. (medlineplus.gov)
  • It is critical for survival because it connects the brain with the spinal cord. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The medulla is the part of the brain stem closest to the spinal cord. (medlineplus.gov)
  • At the base of the brain is the brainstem, which extends from the upper cervical spinal cord to the diencephalon of the cerebrum. (fabulousfrocksofatlanta.com)
  • The brain continues to enlarge at a faster rate than the spinal cord. (ehd.org)
  • Normally the entire cavity enclosing the brain and the spinal cord has a volume of about 1950 ml, and only about 150 ml of this volume is occupied by the CSF. (biologydiscussion.com)
  • 3) The blood vessel of the brain and the spinal cord. (biologydiscussion.com)
  • The nervous system is organized into two parts: the central nervous system, which consists of the brain and the spinal cord, and the peripheral nervous system , which connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body. (medscape.com)
  • In the central nervous system, the brain and spinal cord are the main centers where correlation and integration of nervous information occur. (medscape.com)
  • 90% of motor fibers from each hemisphere cross the midline in the lower brain stem and upper cervical spinal cord. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Neurosurgical pathologies are a set of conditions that affect the brain, spinal cord, and cranial pairs requiring medical and surgical management. (bvsalud.org)
  • Lateral sulcus or Fissure of Sylvius: separates the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain from the temporal lobe. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1) The choroid plexuses inside the ventricles of the brain, mainly the lateral ventricles - the bulk portion of the fluid is formed here. (biologydiscussion.com)
  • Clevenger's fissure: found in the inferior temporal lobe of the brain Collateral fissure: found in the inferior surface of the cerebrum. (wikipedia.org)
  • Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) tractography reveals a reduction in the volume of the inferior longitudinal fasciculus in the brains of 6 patients with congenital prosopagnosia (top). (scienceblogs.com)
  • They focused on two white matter tracts, called the inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF) and the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF), which connect the core face recognition system to the areas of the extended network in the temporal and frontal lobes, respectively. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Furthermore, intracranial stereotactic electroencephalogram (sEEG) evidence confirmed the participation of the inferior frontal gyrus in generating speech mental imagery. (elifesciences.org)
  • I have a problem with the assumption that's quickly become accepted 'truth' about teenage brains: that they are underdeveloped in a couple of critical areas, and that teenagers are, therefore, biologically inferior and less-than-capable. (premiernexgen.com)
  • Each cerebral hemisphere is divided into 4 lobes, delineated by deep fissures on the surface of the brain. (medscape.com)
  • There was evidence of severe blood brain barrier disruption with elevated albumin levels and oligoclonal IgG bands on electrophoresis. (upmc.edu)
  • Individuals with PHTS show distinct neurobehavioral profiles, suggesting primary disruption of frontal lobe systems. (rarediseasesnetwork.org)
  • Neuronal changes (GeneM9), astrocyte reactivity (GeneM32), and blood-brain barrier disruption (GeneM24) were found to extend beyond the frontotemporal regions. (additudemag.com)
  • Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed a mass in the left frontal lobe, while abdominal computerized tomography showed a left renal malignancy. (aku.edu)
  • One by one, the presentation highlighted and labeled the listed injuries which included a displaced and angulated left midshaft fracture of the left femur with a three-centimeter shortening of the left leg, a left renal injury extending down to the left retroperitoneum, and a bibasilar dependent atelectasis of the lungs. (dkglobal.net)
  • She also sustained hemorrhagic contusions in several areas of the cerebral hemisphere, including the left cerebellar hemisphere and frontal lobes. (dkglobal.net)
  • I (Ed) have a background in neuroscience, so when I used to teach units on brain function in my classroom in Chicago Public Schools, I just assumed that students would be fascinated hearing about the brain. (edutopia.org)
  • Using fMRI and other tools of modern neuroscience, researchers are attempting to pin down what happens in the brain when people experience mystical awakenings during prayer and meditation or during spontaneous utterances inspired by religious fervor. (bibliotecapleyades.net)
  • Now, neuroscience reveals that the brain experiences of major development during adolescence that is comparable to early childhood. (aecf.org)
  • Clinical symptoms of brain abscess include focal neurologic deficits and increased intracranial pressure. (medscape.com)
  • The clinical diagnosis was frontal mucocele with intracranial extension. (drtbalu.co)
  • But although the symptoms of most brain tumors are the same, not all tumors are malignant. (wanderluce.com)
  • Early diagnosis and aggressive treatment of brain metastasis may result in remission of brain symptoms and may enhance the quality of the patient's life and prolong survival. (medscape.com)
  • [ 3 ] As Pick stated, "simple progressive brain atrophy can lead to symptoms of local disturbance through local accentuation of the diffuse process. (medscape.com)
  • Beginning in puberty, the frontal lobes undergo dramatic changes, which become increasingly evident throughout adolescence. (aecf.org)
  • Of particular relevance to imaging is the fact that for patients with a solitary brain metastasis who undergo treatment by surgical resection, the survival rate after 1 year is approximately doubled. (medscape.com)
  • Experience-dependent alterations in the human brain's white-matter microstructure occur in early adulthood, but it is unknown whether such plasticity extends throughout life. (uni-frankfurt.de)
  • The frontal lobe is the last portion of the brain that fully develops and is not fully "grown" until after a person passes from adolescence into adulthood. (fabulousfrocksofatlanta.com)
  • The concept of emerging adulthood, and the elements of adolescent brain development that are overlooked by many foster care systems. (aecf.org)
  • But, it also supports one raw and very real fact: During a foster child's long road to adulthood, a loving, supportive, lasting relationship with one person - just one person - can work wonders (and not just on the brain, but the heart and soul, too). (aecf.org)
  • Brain function is maintained in a balance of neurotransmitters , which regulate behavior, thought processes, and essential functions, like control and coherency. (alltreatment.com)
  • They are the most recently evolved portion of the brain, and they regulate the most complex behavior. (medscape.com)
  • Brain abscess may result from a traumatic brain injury, neurosurgical procedures, contiguous spread from a local source, or hematogenous spread of a systemic infection. (medscape.com)
  • Aside from suffering abrasions on her body, she endured a left femur deformity and sustained a traumatic brain injury. (dkglobal.net)
  • There is still considerable discrepancy concerning the best way to study olfactory-mediated brain activity. (researchsquare.com)
  • Published in the Neurobiology of Aging , the study, which focused on detecting changes in the white matter connections of the brain, offers tantalizing potential for the identification of biomarkers connected to the development of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. (medindia.net)
  • Research team member David Powell, PhD, compared the brain scans of three groups of volunteers: persons with Down syndrome but no dementia, persons with Down syndrome and dementia, and a healthy control group. (medindia.net)
  • In England and Europe, cases of frontal lobe dementia were described with progressive dysfunction of the frontal lobes. (medscape.com)
  • The frontal lobe is in charge of problem-solving, judgment, decision-making, and motor functions (Stuss & Alexander, 2000). (neurotray.com)
  • The affected brain tissue exhibited some reactive gliosis, mainly in the white matter, but no granulomas or plasmacytoid cells were detected. (upmc.edu)
  • Because water diffuses readily along the length of nerve fibres, DTI is particularly useful for "tractography" - visualizing the brain's white matter tracts, which contain bundles of axons projecting from one region of the brain to another. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The data they collected revealed that there was indeed a significant difference between the two groups: compared to the controls, the prosopagnostics showed a marked reduction in the volume of both white matter tracts, on both sides of the brain. (scienceblogs.com)
  • In patients with SWS, enlarged deep medullary veins (EDMVs)-located in the white matter in the brain-could allow for drainage of brain regions affected by leptomeningeal venous malformations (LVM), a type of vascular malformation of the brain. (rarediseasesnetwork.org)
  • The findings indicate that experience-dependent plasticity of white-matter microstructure extends into old age and that disruptions of structural interhemispheric connectivity in old age, which are pronounced in aging, are modifiable by experience and amenable to treatment. (uni-frankfurt.de)
  • Whole-brain voxel-based statistical analysis of gray matter and white matter in temporal lobe epilepsy. (ox.ac.uk)
  • As is known, the structural integrity of the white matter fiber bundles provides the basis for abnormal brain function. (dovepress.com)
  • We used magnetic resonance imaging to compare the health of the brain's white matter and how strongly it connects different parts of the brain," explains Elizabeth Head, Ph.D., the study's senior author. (medindia.net)
  • and (3) clear participation of these left frontal areas in a task emphasizing "receptive" language functions. (jneurosci.org)
  • Their analysis found that the longer duration of infection before anti-retroviral treatment, the more damage was found in a variety of brain areas. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Voxel-based morphometry revealed that GM pathology in TLE extends beyond the hippocampus involving other limbic areas such as the cingulum and the thalamus, as well as extralimbic areas, particularly the frontal lobe. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The brain starts response messages in the motor projection areas, from which they proceed to the muscles and glands. (medscape.com)
  • Heteromodal association areas are not restricted to any single motor or sensory function but receive convergent information from multiple sensory and motor areas of the brain. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Heteromodal association areas in the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes integrate sensory data, motor feedback, and other information with instinctual and acquired memories. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Brain abscess is a focal area of necrosis with a surrounding membrane within the brain parenchyma, usually resulting from an infectious process or, rarely, from a traumatic process. (medscape.com)
  • Brain abscess is a potentially fatal injury that must be treated promptly to avoid complications that require neurosurgery, such as intraventricular rupture. (medscape.com)
  • [ 6 ] Pyogenic infection of brain parenchyma begins with cerebritis, a localized area of inflammation, which can progress to an immature capsular stage and then to brain abscess, which is characterized by an area of parenchymal infection that contains pus encapsulated by a vascularized membrane. (medscape.com)
  • Rupture of a brain abscess, however, is more fatal. (medscape.com)
  • In the earliest stages of the evolution of a cerebral abscess, a CT scan of the brain may be negative or it may show subtle nonspecific findings. (medscape.com)
  • The preferred initial examination of the patient in whom brain abscess is suspected is MRI with and without gadolinium enhancement. (medscape.com)
  • Amoebic brain abscess associated with renal cell carcinoma" by Umme Hani Abdullah,, Mirza Zain Baig, et al. (aku.edu)
  • We report a case of amoebic brain abscess in a man who presented with fever, vomiting and headache with confusion and right hemiparesis. (aku.edu)
  • Two had brain abscess. (bvsalud.org)
  • Exploring this hypothesis, neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran of the University of California , San Diego, asked several of his patients who have temporal lobe epilepsy to listen to a mixture of religious, sexual and neutral words while he tested the intensity of their emotional reactions using a measure of arousal called the galvanic skin response, a fluctuation in the electrical resistance of the skin. (bibliotecapleyades.net)
  • In 1998 he reported in his book Phantoms in the Brain , co-authored with journalist Sandra Blakeslee , that the religious words, such as God , elicited an unusually large emotional response in these patients, indicating that people with temporal lobe epilepsy may indeed have a greater propensity toward religious feeling. (bibliotecapleyades.net)
  • The frontal lobe may also be linked to emotional temperament. (medscape.com)
  • MEG data was recorded at Aston Brain Centre (ABC) using both a 275-channel CTF system and using an Elekta 306-channel system. (fieldtriptoolbox.org)
  • Les pathologies neurochirurgicales sont un ensemble d'affections qui touche le cerveau, la moelle épinière, et les paires crâniennes nécessitant une prise en charge médico-chirurgicale. (bvsalud.org)
  • Les pathologies neurochirurgicales sont en fréquentes dans notre contexte. (bvsalud.org)
  • Functional maps of the entire brain were obtained from 30 right-handed subjects. (jneurosci.org)
  • The findings presented here substantially refine our understanding of ASD molecular pathology beyond the previously established 'downregulated neuron' and 'upregulated glia/immune' functional categories observed in frontal and temporal lobes. (additudemag.com)
  • It may be a groove, natural division, deep furrow, elongated cleft, or tear in the surface of a limb or an organ, most notably on the surface of the brain, but also in the lungs, certain muscles (including the heart), as well as in bones, and elsewhere. (wikipedia.org)
  • The left side of the brain controls the muscles on the right side of the body and vice versa. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Brain scans were shown to further aid in illustrating these brain traumas. (dkglobal.net)
  • But there are also documented cases of patients who have the condition in the absence of brain damage. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Thomas and his colleagues therefore performed DTI tractography on 6 prosopagnosic patients and 17 controls, in order to investigate the connections between those parts of the brain involved in face perception. (scienceblogs.com)
  • An estimated 36.7 million people live with the infection but less than half have access to combination anti-retroviral treatment, which has extended the lifespan of millions of HIV patients. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The incidence of brain metastasis is rising with the increase in survival of cancer patients. (medscape.com)
  • Brain metastases are an increasingly important cause of morbidity and mortality in cancer patients. (medscape.com)
  • The prognosis for patients with brain metastases typically is poor. (medscape.com)
  • However, brain MRI for patients with primary cancers that frequently metastasize to the brain (eg, bronchogenic carcinoma) is probably cost effective. (medscape.com)
  • Il s'agit d'une étude rétrospective descriptive et analytique, multicentrique portant sur des patients de moins de 5ans pris en charge pour une affection neurochirurgicale de Janvier 2019 à Décembre 2021 à Libreville. (bvsalud.org)
  • Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) is a condition resulting in abnormal blood vessel development in the brain, eyes, and skin at birth. (rarediseasesnetwork.org)
  • The team hopes their work might eventually lead to the identification of biomarkers for the development of Alzheimer's disease in people with Down syndrome and, potentially, extend that to the general population as well. (medindia.net)
  • The eyes move into the frontal plane closer to the midline and nearly attain their definitive position. (ehd.org)
  • Based on years of research in the new field of developmental psychology, Piaget suggested that the human brain goes through a handful of marked stages in how it processes and understands information. (premiernexgen.com)
  • But other than studying the brains of children and teenagers during autopsies, and the occasional brain surgery, very little was actually known about the processes of healthy pre-adult brains. (premiernexgen.com)
  • The occipital lobe analyzes visual information from the retina and then processes that information. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Occipitoparietal fissure: found between the occipital and parietal lobes of the brain. (wikipedia.org)
  • Physical activity has been found to influence the brain's neurochemistry and plasticity, through the upregulation of neurotrophins such as brain-derived nerve factor (BDRF) and nerve growth factor (NGF) in rat models ( 5 , 6 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Type II: Here the mucocele is found involving the frontal and ethmoidal sinuses with or without orbital extension. (drtbalu.co)
  • X-ray would usually reveal the loss of normal haustrations found in the frontal sinus. (drtbalu.co)
  • Meningiomas commonly are found at the surface of the brain, either over the convexity or at the skull base. (medscape.com)
  • For a long time, scientists have been studying adult brains - alive and dead, healthy and ill. (premiernexgen.com)