In the blink of an eye, a stroke can rewrite the brain’s intricate circuitry, leaving a trail of disrupted functions in its wake. This cerebral lightning strike affects various regions of the brain, ...

Medically reviewed by Brigid Dwyer, MD Key Takeaways An occipital lobe stroke can change your vision, causing partial vision loss or even total blindness.Most people who have strokes are over the age ...

Although obvious signs of a stroke include partial paralysis, weakness, slurred speech or impaired vision, strokes in the frontal lobe can be "more subtle," because it takes longer to detect a ...

Gait apraxia affects a person's ability to start and coordinate walking. It occurs when something affects the brain's frontal ...

Recently retired Arizona Wildcats basketball coach Lute Olson had a stroke, probably within the past year, his doctor said Tuesday. An MRI exam, or brain scan, taken Monday discovered the stroke, said ...

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 ...

A group of children who have sickle cell disease and who experience silent strokes showed some relief from the silent strokes with blood transfusion therapy, researchers at Washington University ...

The human language system appears to recruit a broad network of frontal and temporal brain regions. Even though different aspects of language processing have by now been confidently apportioned to ...