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The brain’s frontal lobe controls thinking, planning, problem-solving, movement and short-term memory, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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Raja Razek and Jeanne Bonner, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
The connections between his brain’s frontal lobes, which are responsible for executive function, and the parts of the brain that generate fear, anger, impulsiveness and violence were badly frayed.
—Dave Philipps, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
Home for Thanksgiving After 158 Days in the Hospital
Doctors also discovered he’d been born without the right frontal lobe of his brain, leaving his left side with partial mobility.
—Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2024
Brain magnetic resonance imaging found a growing lesion in her right frontal lobe.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2023
The two foremost portions of the brain, the frontal lobe and the two temporal lobes help people plan, pay attention, multitask and make choices.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2023
She was then admitted to a hospital in Canberra, where an MRI scan revealed something unusual in her right frontal lobe.
—Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
The frontal lobe of the brain, which is impacted by the disease, controls self-insight, which could speak to Willis’ difficulty in understanding the condition.
—William Earl, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
Researchers suspect that in those with FTD, damage to the frontal lobes impairs the ability to suppress other brain activity, and their behavior becomes disinhibited and socially inappropriate.
—Robert Martone, Scientific American, 26 May 2023
Raja Razek and Jeanne Bonner, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
The connections between his brain’s frontal lobes, which are responsible for executive function, and the parts of the brain that generate fear, anger, impulsiveness and violence were badly frayed.
—Dave Philipps, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
Home for Thanksgiving After 158 Days in the Hospital
Doctors also discovered he’d been born without the right frontal lobe of his brain, leaving his left side with partial mobility.
—Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2024
Brain magnetic resonance imaging found a growing lesion in her right frontal lobe.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2023
The two foremost portions of the brain, the frontal lobe and the two temporal lobes help people plan, pay attention, multitask and make choices.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2023
She was then admitted to a hospital in Canberra, where an MRI scan revealed something unusual in her right frontal lobe.
—Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
The frontal lobe of the brain, which is impacted by the disease, controls self-insight, which could speak to Willis’ difficulty in understanding the condition.
—William Earl, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
Researchers suspect that in those with FTD, damage to the frontal lobes impairs the ability to suppress other brain activity, and their behavior becomes disinhibited and socially inappropriate.
—Robert Martone, Scientific American, 26 May 2023
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“Frontal lobe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frontal%20lobe. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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