Sept. 10, 2004 — Total dream loss is a distinct neuropsychological dysfunction caused by deep bilateral occipital lobe damage and can occur in a setting of normal sleep architecture, including REM ...

Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome (RPLS) is characterized by headache, altered mental functioning, seizures, and visual loss, and has been recognized in a variety of conditions, ...

At first, he would see a colorful circle. It would grow a shimmering, flashing tail “dripping” down, which he compared to fireworks. “It’s beautiful!” he said of one of these episodes – but they gave ...

The brain has many regions that perform different functions. Have students use a map of the brain and brain stem to locate these regions: frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe, ...

A 72 year-old woman developed the abrupt onset of difficulty seeing on the right side. Posterior Cerebral Artery (PCA) Infarction: Axial CT scans 3 days after presentation. Note the hypodensity in the ...

A boy who had large parts of the right side of his brain removed due to a slow-growing tumor made a nearly full recovery in the three years after his surgery, with other areas of his brain ...

The parietal lobe is located near the center of the brain, behind the frontal lobe, in front of the occipital lobe, and above the temporal lobe. The parietal lobe contains an area known as the primary ...

"Turn off your mind, relax, and float down stream..." Maybe John Lennon was onto something when he wrote those words for the Beatles' song "Tomorrow Never Knows." It turns out that that reality and ...