A convicted cop-killer who is missing part of his brain's frontal lobe wants the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his planned Tuesday execution, saying that he's ineligible for the death penalty because of ...

A loving relationship can be an oasis in uncertain times, but nurturing it requires attention, honesty, openness, vulnerability, and gratitude. In Why Self-Control Fails in Dementia, I explained how ...

An expert in cognitive and linguistic sciences has mapped parts of the brain that control abstract or concrete decision making by studying stroke patients. A new study of stroke victims has produced ...

In Why Self-Control Fails in Dementia, I explained how part of frontal lobe function is to regulate behavior. Another part of frontal lobe function is to help us plan and organize actions and ...

The child, Samuel Moreno-Carranza, “has lost a major part of what makes us who we are,” his grandmother said The 7-year-old boy who was shot in the head during the shooting at Lakewood Church last ...

The less you use your brain's frontal lobes, the more you see yourself through rose-colored glasses, researchers have found. The less you use your brain's frontal lobes, the more you see yourself ...

What is it that makes us different from one another? How do we define ourselves in relation to others? These expansive questions are probed by the 22 artists participating in “Equal Parts,” currently ...

The 7-year-old boy who was shot and critically injured at Lakewood Church on Sunday is facing an uphill fight for survival that includes at least 2 brain surgeries, according to his grandmother.

Perminder Sachdev receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Australian Research Council (ARC). He also has funding support from a number off oundations, ...