What's more, disruptions to that mechanism could underlie some brain disorders, Gilbert says. "This type of neuronal flexibility happens in areas outside of perception," he notes.

Neuroimaging studies of lateral changes to brain blood flow and metabolism—brain regions' use of glucose—that Levin analyzed showed signs of heavy activity in the frontal lobes in the right ...

St. Louis, Sept. 25, 2002 -- When a stroke affects the language areas in the left side of the brain, the right side takes over and learns how to perform language tasks, according to research at ...

In contrast, the right side of the frontal lobe – the right prefrontal cortex – is more active when people feel sad. Thus, by learning what stimulates the left prefrontal cortex we can ...

After decades of studying the brain, researchers at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus identified a link between brain damage and criminal behavior.

Researchers Were Not Right About Left Brains, Study Suggests Uniquely human cognitive abilities may have evolved by adapting ancestral asymmetry pattern Date: February 14, 2020 Source: Max Planck ...

Oxford University Press, 288 pp, $29.95; 2001 ISBN: 0195140222 | ISBN: 0-195-14022-2 The Executive Brain is a popular account of the importance of the frontal lobes for human functioning.

In people who stutter, the brain regions that are responsible for speech movements are particularly affected." The study, titled "Structural connectivity of right frontal hyperactive areas scales with ...

The sorts of documented differences between left-brain and right-brain functioning are hardly the stuff of popular generalizations, but they are fundamentally important to a genuine understanding ...