What happens during a focal seizure depends on which area (lobe) of the brain is affected, and whether the seizure spreads to affect other areas. Some people just experience one symptom during a focal ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Seizures that occur in one's frontal lobe, for instance, can affect memory, problem-solving skills, and one's ability to speak. Seizures ...

(118). The cause of seizures was a 1 cm aneurysm of the middle cerebral artery, “between the tip of the right temporal lobe and the orbitofrontal gyrus.” MRI clearly shows compression of both frontal ...

This is the most common type of epilepsy surgery, and it comes in two forms: temporal and frontal. Lobectomy is only for focal seizures, meaning that they start in a localized area of the brain. Part ...

Some people with epilepsy have sleep related seizures (sometimes called ‘ asleep seizures’), that happen when they are asleep, as they are falling asleep, or as they are waking up. Frontal lobe ...

Seizures that occur in one's frontal lobe, for instance, can affect memory, problem-solving skills, and one's ability to speak. Seizures that occur in one's temporal lobe can change emotions and ...

The human brain is formed by a complex network of neural connections and most of them link neighboring brain regions, which are also the most studied to date. But a recent neuroscientific study by ...

In patients with tuberous sclerosis complex, the differential diagnosis between Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and localization-related symptomatic epilepsy originating in the frontal lobe can be ...

Objective We sought to augment the presurgical workup of medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy by creating a supervised machine learning technique that uses diffusion-weighted imaging to ...

A patient is reported who displayed marked confabulation after frontal lobe damage, and whose pattern of performance on memory tests was not typically amnesic. He initially displayed both "fantastic" ...