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 ...

Researchers have long known that seizures can affect consciousness in very different ways. In temporal lobe epilepsy, impaired awareness is linked to slow wave activity in the brain. But what about ...

The “frontal lobe syndrome” as it is commonly called, is a loose collection of symptoms frequently observed in patients who suffer prefrontal lobe dysfunction—that is, these brain areas no longer work ...

Alan Miller is a former Dispatch editor who writes for TheReportingProject.org, the nonprofit news organization of Denison University’s Journalism Program, which is sponsored in part by the Mellon ...

A loved one undergoing massive shifts in personality or speech can be challenging to work with. You might be wondering if it’s already a symptom of an underlying disease. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) ...

These days, everyone seems to know about the frontal lobes; the parts of the brain that continue to develop through our teens and into our early twenties. To be more precise, the area that is commonly ...