Serious car crashes can trigger a case of dissociative amnesia. Brian Stablyk/Getty Images People involved in a serious car crash or victims of violent crimes sometimes cannot remember the incident. When amnesia follows an external traumatic event like this, doctors call it dissociative, or psyc...
Frontal: speech, thought and memory Parietal: sensory input from your body Temporal: auditory information from your ears Occipital: visual information from your eyes It's obvious that your cerebral cortex has a big impact on how you think. But studying exactly how it makes you smart is a litt...
Diffusion MRI can also be used for monitoring treatment efficacy, giving information on whether therapy is effective or not at an early stage, before actual changes to the tumor size can be detected, saving several weeks or months if a switch to another treatment has to be made, as has ...
A brain tumor is found in a CT scan of Mr. Child's head. The physician is assuming that it is not a secondary tumor (i.e. it did not spread from another part of the body) because an exhaustive workup has revealed no ...
Bruxism is a behavioral parafunctional activity characterized by the excessive clenching of the jaw and grinding of the teeth. Bruxism is not linked to normal behavioral functions associated with the teeth and jaw such as eating and talking. Bruxism is a parafunctional activity prevalent...
Diffusion MRI can also be used for monitoring treatment efficacy, giving information on whether therapy is effective or not at an early stage, before actual changes to the tumor size can be detected, saving several weeks or months if a switch to another treatment has to be made, as has ...