The cortical area overlying the insula toward the lateral surface of the brain is the operculum (meaning lid). The opercula are formed from parts of the enclosing frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes ...

These devices, apps, and other technology may help you live more independently with geographic atrophy (GA). Your phone, tablet, or computer can help you with everyday tasks. For example ...

Most clinical MRI exams in the U.S. are performed with 1.5T or 3T MRI systems. As recently as 2022, the National Institutes of Health documented only about 100 7T MRI machines being used for ...

Powerful MRI scanners were used to examine patients who had been admitted to hospital with Covid-19, which showed “long-lasting brain changes”. This was “likely caused by an immune response ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare genetic disorder that causes severe muscle weakness. SMA usually affects children, and is typically diagnosed in the first 18 months of life. In its most ...

Results: Based on the group-level whole-brain surface-based analyses, the ds-ALS group demonstrated significant cortical thinning compared to HCs in the left primary motor and somatosensory cortices ...

Recent studies suggest a framework where white-matter (WM) atrophy plays an important role in fronto-temporal dementia (FTD) pathophysiology. However, these studies often overlook the fact that WM ...

They can include things like changes in emotions, thinking and sensations. What happens during a focal seizure depends on which area (lobe) of the brain is affected, and whether the seizure spreads to ...