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Recognizing sarcasm when you hear it involves a complex sequence of cognitive skills, according to Israeli researchers. People with brain damage in the prefrontal lobe--where language and social cues are processed--don't get, for example, why anyone would tell a slacker, "Don't work too hard...
Gould’s wife, Rhonda Roland Shearer, now claims that the doctors—an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and two radiologists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital—overlooked a centimeter-wide lesion in the upper lobe of his lung that later became cancerous...
...Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine. Among its array of medical artifacts, the museum boasts the first ether inhaler, a skeleton of Siamese twins, and the skull of Phineas Gage—a railroad worker who experienced severe personality changes after a nail went through his frontal lobe...
...performed C.T. scans on their brains. Not surprisingly, body-mass index (or BMI, a ratio of weight to height) increased as the women aged. In addition, the women with the highest BMI turned out to be the most likely to have suffered atrophy, or wasting, of the temporal lobes of the brain. In fact, the researchers found that for every 1-point rise in BMI, the risk of temporal-lobe atrophy increased between 13% and 16%. The temporal lobes, which are often affected in Alzheimer's disease, play a role in memory, verbal expression and language comprehension...
...those reasons might be that, as the sole species--as far as we know--capable of contemplating its own death, we needed something larger than ourselves to make that knowledge tolerable. "Anticipation of our own demise is the price we pay for a highly developed frontal lobe," says Persinger. "In many ways, [a God experience is] a brilliant adaptation. It's a built-in pacifier...