Yesterday I wrote a post about ADHD and creativity and how the frontal lobes hypo-function and dopamine may be the mediating factors involved. Today I serendipitously came across this article by Thomson-Schill et al in which they posit that frontal cortex hypofunction during childhood is beneficial, on average, as it enables convention learning and thus More >Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)Rel
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July 20, 2010
Cognitive control: when less is more!
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January 10, 2010
Brain activity levels affect self-perception: ‘Rose-colored glasses’ correlate with less frontal lobe use
The less you use your brain's frontal lobes, the more you see yourself through rose-colored glasses, researchers have found.
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August 25, 2009
More Obesity Blues: Obese People Are At Greater Risk For Developing Alzheimer’s, Study Finds
Researchers have found that obese people had 8 percent less brain tissue than people with normal weight, while overweight people had 4 percent less tissue in their frontal lobes.
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June 17, 2009
Alien lipstick syndrome
I've just found this remarkable case study of a woman with an unpredictable form of 'alien hand syndrome' that was triggered when she had a seizure.The syndrome, where you lose conscious control of one of your hands while it carries out unbidden actions, is normally associated with permanent damage to the brain, often in the frontal lobes, but this version only occurred when an epileptic seizure
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