Damage to the right cerebral hemisphere can elicit spatial neglect — a lack of awareness of space and of object parts on the side contralateral to a brain injury. Traditionally, the inferior parietal ...

More than 100 years after it was first described, hemineglect—also known as unilateral spatial neglect, or unilateral inattention—is still one of the most fascinating and mysterious of the ...

Doctors are not mincing words about the kind of brain tumor diagnosed in Sen. Edward Kennedy. "Cure is out of the question," said Dr. John Adler Jr., professor of neurosurgery at the Stanford ...

The neocortex is part of the human brain’s cerebral cortex where higher cognitive functioning is thought to originate from. Due to the natural grooves and ridges in the brain, the neocortex is ...