Dr. Ashwin Amurthur (Neurology): A 57-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of persistent visual disturbances involving the right visual field, episodes of shaking of the right arm and ...

There’s much to learn regarding the parietal lobes, such as their function and location. The parietal lobes are responsible for sensory information, visual processing, and coordinating movement, and ...

Abstract: An objective pain measurement device would provide a revolutionary tool for physicians to treat patients. Electroencephalography (EEG) is a widely-used, inexpensive, simply-administered ...

Common conditions such as indigestion and heartburn as well as peptic ulcers, autoimmune gastritis and stomach and esophageal cancers have one thing in common – they involve disruptions of the normal ...

The parietal lobe is one of the brain’s major lobes. It sits near the upper back area in the skull. The lobe processes sensory information received from the outside world, mainly relating to touch, ...

Summary: Volume decreases in cortical areas, the amygdala, and basal forebrain in Parkinson’s patients correlated with worsening symptoms of the disease. A team of researchers from Forschungszentrum ...

1 Human Physiology Section of the Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy 2 Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve ...

Language, empathy, attention - as different as these abilities may be, one brain region is involved in all these processes: The inferior parietal lobe (IPL). Yet until now it was unclear exactly what ...

Table 1. Papers and methods which have been used in order to study central mechanism of itch. The first itch matrix includes but is not restricted to the primary sensorimotor cortex, the ...

Aim: The cortical representations for almost all senses (touch, pain, sound, vision and smell) haven been robustly mapped in humans with functional neuroimaging. But the majority of cerebral regions ...

Spoilers follow for Star Trek: Picard Episode 2. In “Maps and Legends,” the second episode of Star Trek: Picard, our stalwart title character has a conversation with one Dr. Moritz Benayoun (played by ...