Definition of temporal lobe
: a large lobe of each cerebral hemisphere that is situated in front of the occipital lobe and contains a sensory area associated with the organ of hearing
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Even before Alzheimer's disease steals memories, the condition begins to change the density and volume of the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex, memory-making structures that lie at the heart of the medial temporal lobe.
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The study did not find any correlation between subjects' exercise habits and the thickness of either their medial temporal lobe or its constituent structures.
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So some of these patients can actually develop dementia, called frontal-temporal lobe dementia.
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He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where doctors found a lesion in his left temporal lobe.
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Fronto-temporal lobar degeneration accounts for about 10 percent of dementia cases and describes shrinking of the frontal and temporal lobes.
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The disease targets the brain’s frontal and temporal lobes, causing the debilitating symptoms.
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The temporal lobes — where sound is heard, memories are formed and emotions originate — had been pulled back and down, stretched like saltwater taffy.
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The disease targets the brain’s frontal and temporal lobes, causing the debilitating symptoms.
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First Known Use of temporal lobe
1889
Medical Dictionary
temporal lobe
medical Definition of temporal lobe
: a large lobe of each cerebral hemisphere that is situated in front of the occipital lobe and contains a sensory area associated with the organ of hearing
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