That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early ...

Frontotemporal dementia is a brain disease that affects the parts of your brain responsible for behavior, speech and memory. “Frontotemporal” stems from the names frontal and temporal lobes, which are ...

Bruce Willis, one of Hollywood’s most iconic actors, stepped away from acting after a serious health diagnosis that affected ...

Recently, I reviewed how our “caveperson brains” react to the pandemic. But is there anything we can do about it? While we can’t do much to control our caveperson brain, there is another part of our ...

The brain's frontal lobe may be organized in a front-to-back continuum, with concrete decision-making occurring toward the back of the lobe and abstract thought toward the front, according to a recent ...

Increased impulsivity, or a lack of impulse control, is a key characteristic of many psychiatric disorders, including alcohol dependence. Recent studies suggest that increased impulsivity is involved ...

Toronto, CANADA -- A new study sheds light on why brain injury patients have difficulty performing tasks consistently -- a necessary requirement for holding a job. The findings may influence how ...

On Wednesday, the family of actor Bruce Willis disclosed that he has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative brain disease that currently has no cure. Calling the diagnosis a ...

Social cognition is thought to be impaired in patients with prefrontal vascular lesions and in those with the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia, according to several clinical reports.