The visual cortex evolved to receive, process, and integrate visual information that enters the brain through the eyes. The information that is processed in the visual cortex is then transferred to ...

The neocortex comprises the largest part of the cerebral cortex and is the outermost layer that covers the structures of the brain. Comprised of four main lobes with specific functions, the cortex ...

A man in his 70s had an episode of vertical visual tilt after blinking, as if the room tilted to the right, and of deviation of the body to the right when he walked, together with slight vertigo and ...

In a study published December 26 in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, researchers tested the effects of cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation in the occipital cortex of 42 patients with ...

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Not seeing the left (or right) side can occur with occipital or parietal lobe damage In my last article, I mentioned how the parietal lobes help to focus attention, and that it is asymmetric. Although ...

What Is the Frontal Lobe? Your frontal lobe is one of four different sections (also called lobes) of your brain. The four lobes in your brain are called the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...