The human language system appears to recruit a broad network of frontal and temporal brain regions. Even though different aspects of language processing have by now been confidently apportioned to ...

The clinical syndrome produced by a stroke is determined by the artery or arteries that are occluded. Blood is supplied to the brain by two major sets of arteries, the anterior and posterior ...

Educational attainment is linked to reduced white matter hyperintensity burden in older adults, with vascular risk factors serving as a key mediator.

Neuroscientists have gained new insight into how our brain evolved into a language-ready brain. Compared to chimpanzee brains, the pattern of connections of language areas in our brain has expanded ...

Some older people accumulate tau in their medial temporal lobes but have no amyloid plaques, a condition called primary age-related tauopathy (PART). Do they eventually develop Alzheimer’s disease? In ...

Seizures can be predicted more than 30 minutes before onset in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, opening the door to a therapy using electrodes that could be activated to prevent seizures from ...

Many believe our particularly large brain is what makes us human – but is there more to it? The brain’s shape, as well as the shapes of its component parts (lobes) may also be important. Results of a ...