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 ...

Evidence suggests that in multiple sclerosis (MS), damage to the corticostriatothalamocortical circuit is critical in the development of fatigue. The goal of this case-control study at the National ...

Language, empathy, attention - as different as these abilities may be, one brain region is involved in all these processes: The inferior parietal lobe (IPL). Yet until now it was unclear exactly what ...

Visually guided eating, biting and kissing, and avoiding objects moving toward the face and toward which the face moves require prompt, coordinated processing of spatial visual and somatosensory ...

Men consistently outperform women on spatial tasks, including mental rotation, which is the ability to identify how a 3-D object would appear if rotated in space. A new study shows a connection ...

"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 ...

Not seeing the left (or right) side can occur with occipital or parietal lobe damage. In my last post, I mentioned how the parietal lobes help to focus attention, and that it is asymmetric. Although ...

Not seeing the left (or right) side can occur with occipital or parietal lobe damage In my last article, I mentioned how the parietal lobes help to focus attention, and that it is asymmetric. Although ...