A team of researchers at UCL and UCLH have identified the key brain regions that are essential for logical thinking and problem solving.

Although we know a lot about the brain and what it does, we still have much left to learn about the most complex organ in the ...

(For more, see Left Brain - Right Brain.) The cerebral hemispheres are commonly mapped out based on four large regions—the frontal lobe, the temporal lobe, the parietal lobe, and the occipital ...

The frontal lobe is the frontmost region of the cerebral cortex right under the forehead and is involved in movement, decision-making, problem solving and planning. The frontal lobe can be divided ...

On the brain's surface a filigree of arteries feeds blood to the region under the surgeons' urgent scrutiny: a part of her left frontal lobe critical to the production of spoken language.

An amputee struggles to use his new prosthetic limb. A patient with a frontal-lobe brain lesion insists that her left hand has a mind of its own. The alleged criminal claims in court that he did not ...

It has two halves called the left and right hemispheres and ... to risky and impulsive behaviour. Back to the lobes, in the teenage brain, the frontal lobe, which is responsible for problem ...

The Executive Brain is a popular account of the importance of the frontal lobes for human functioning. The autobiographical elements in the sections that deal with Goldberg's decision to leave ...

Image caption, The limbic system of the brain sets in motion the ... along with the limbic system. The frontal lobe is split into two halves, the left and the right. The left is the practical ...