The occipital lobe is located at the rear portion of the skull, behind the parietal and temporal lobes. One of the most important parts of this lobe is the primary visual cortex, a region of the brain ...

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 ...

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 ...

He was diagnosed with epilepsy in the region of the brain that controls vision, color and motion At first, he would see a colorful circle. It would grow a shimmering, flashing tail “dripping” down, ...

A recent study published in the Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 8, No. 18, 2013) combined cognition tasks and functional MRI, and designed multiple repeated event-related tasks; additionally, using ...

Positioned at the rear of the cerebral cortex, the occipital lobes are the main centres for visual processing, such as the interpretation of colour, shape and distance. Located within the occipital ...

The occipital lobe is the visual processing center of the mammalian brain. The primary visual cortex is Brodmann area 17, located in the interior portion of the occipital lobe at the calcarine sulcus ...