introduction many conditions can mimic psychiatric symptoms. amongst them, intracranial mass and space occupying lesions have a significant importance. aggression and hallucination are seen in association with a basal frontal lesion, and may mimic psychotic syndromes. case presentation a 37-year-old man with no previous mental illness presented with a month history of headache, blurred vision, ...

The paroxysmal motor events during sleep are certainly common.The systematic use of nocturnal video-polysomnography has largely improved the diagnostic yield in patients with clusters of nocturnal motor events. Two broad nosological categories have been identified: parasomnias (sleep terror and sleep-walking), which are thought to represent disorders of arousal during sleep,and the epileptic se...

David A. Lewis and Darlene Melchitzky 9. CHILDREN’S FRONTAL LOBES: NO LONGER SILENT? 118 Vicki Anderson and Megan Spencer-Smith 10. ADOLESCENT FRONTAL LOBES: UNDER CONSTRUCTION 135 Jay N. Giedd, Armin Raznahan, and Rhoshel K. Lenroot 11. ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON PREFRONTAL DEVELOPMENT 145 Allyson P. Mackey, Rajeev D.S. Raizada, and Silvia A. Bunge 12. DEVELOPMENT OF CORTICAL NETWORKS FOR TOP...

About one-quarter of patients with refractory focal epilepsies have frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE). The typical seizure semiology for FLE includes unilateral clonic, tonic asymmetric or hypermotor seizures. Interictal electroencephalograms (EEG) usually reveal interictal epileptiform discharges and rhythmical midline theta, which has localizing value. The usefulness of ictal EEG recordings is limi...

Abstract The frontal lobes represent a large area, consuming approximately one-third of the cortical surface of the brain. This area is involved directly and indirectly across a wide spectrum of human thought, behavior and emotions. The irony of the frontal lobes may best be described as the area of the brain we know the most about but understand the least. For example, frontal lobe functioning...

Tuberculomas are usually infratentorial in children, and supratentorial lesions predominate in adults. We present a 4-year-old girl with multiple seizures, papilloedema and brisk reflexes. On investigation, she was found to have a large left parafalcine tuberculoma. She was treated with antitubercular treatment (ATT) and steroids. The child improved, seizures stopped and the papilloedema gradua...

Scenarios regarding the evolution of cognitive function in hominids depend largely on our understanding of the organization of the frontal lobes in extant humans and apes. The frontal lobe is involved in functions such as creative thinking, planning of future actions, decision making, artistic expression, aspects of emotional behavior, as well as working memory, language and motor control. It i...

Modern neuroscientific research help to solve the impotent challenge in curriculum design and teaching for enhancing students’ ability to organize information in a way that makes it efficient in response to an appropriate context such as problem solving and critical thinking via knowing about the mechanism of different type of memories especially long term memory. At first, we should to c...

Free recall, use of organizational strategies, and interference effects were assessed in patients with frontal lobe lesions and control subjects. In three experiments, patients with frontal lobe lesions exhibited impaired free recall and reduced use of organizational strategies in tests of memory. Reduced use of strategies was observed on tests of recall of unrelated items, as measured by subje...