The occipital lobe is located at the rear portion of the skull, behind the parietal and temporal lobes. One of the most important parts of this lobe is the primary visual cortex, a region of the brain ...

When people lack visual imagination, this is known as aphantasia. Researchers investigated how the lack of mental imagery affects long-term memory. They were able to show that changes in two important ...

Researchers from four academic neurosurgical centers in Japan found that the parietooccipital fissure, which divides the temporal, occipital, and parietal lobes of the brain, acts as an obstacle that ...

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 ...

There’s much to learn regarding the parietal lobes, such as their function and location. The parietal lobes are responsible for sensory information, visual processing, and coordinating movement, and ...

Glioblastoma Multiforme (Occipital Lobe). T1-weighted axial MRIs. Note the large mass in the right medial occipital lobe that crosses the midline through the splenium of the corpus callosum. There is ...