including dementia and other degenerative brain diseases, stroke, infections, or brain tumors. Frontal lobe damage can sometimes be diagnosed with imaging scans. In other cases, a ...

The Executive Brain is a popular account of the importance of the frontal lobes for human functioning ... among the young and the increase of dementia due to an aging population.

A new USC-led study suggests that assessing blood vessel health should be included in dementia diagnostics. A new USC-led ...

All but the FTD-MND patients had advanced clinical dementia (CDR=4-5). Compared with gender-matched mean control volumes, mean FTD volumes were reduced throughout the frontal lobes from stage 2 ...

Mild cognitive impairment is linked to blood vessel dysfunction in the brain's temporal lobes—the seat of memory—according to a new USC-led study.

“Even in individuals who had not yet developed kidney disease, we could see that kidney function was linked to brain atrophy.

Nearly 10 per cent of people live with chronic kidney disease - in other words, their kidneys can't adequately filter waste ...