You’ve probably heard that your brain has a right half and left half, known as a hemisphere. Interestingly, each hemisphere of the human brain controls the opposite side of the body. Each half of the ...

Medically reviewed by Smita Patel, DOMedically reviewed by Smita Patel, DO The frontal lobe is the front portion of the brain and the largest of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex. It ...

Certain health conditions can harm the brain, accelerating age-related shrinking and damaging different parts of the brain. The hippocampus and frontal lobes tend to be affected by aging.

“The senses are critical for memory because they’re at the intersection between our environment, our experiences, and our memory system,” says Susanne Jaeggi, a professor of psychology, applied ...

The temporal lobes are on either side of the brain, nearest to the ears. Their main roles involve memory processing, hearing and language. Both temporal lobes store general knowledge. General ...

The frontal lobe is a part of the brain that controls key functions relating to consciousness and communication, memory, attention, and other roles.

A new study from UC San Francisco challenges the traditional view of how the brain strings sounds together to form words and ...

Results of a study we published Thursday (Jan. 5) in Nature Ecology & Evolution show that the way the different parts of the human brain evolved separates us from our primate relatives. In a sense ...

The temporal lobes are on either side of the brain, nearest to the ears. Their main roles involve memory processing, hearing and language. Both temporal lobes store general knowledge. General ...