Each of these lobes controls specific functions of your body. Your frontal lobe is one of the largest parts of your cortex, which allows you to move your muscles, reason, and engage with others ...

The largest part of the brain is the highly-evolved cerebrum. The topmost portion is divided into two hemispheres, each with four lobes ... and upper body. The brain also contains four ...

The liver is the largest organ inside your body, located just ... and the duodenum (or first part of the small intestine). Some people's liver might not fully develop correctly when they are in the ...

About a third of brain tumors are malignant, which means they: May grow quickly Have irregular borders Easily spread to surrounding tissues and other parts of your body Read on to learn more about ...

In the blink of an eye, a stroke can rewrite the brain's intricate circuitry, leaving a trail of disrupted functions in its ...

Your sex, body weight, and family history ... whenever you have an experience — like a conversation — a part of your brain called the prefrontal lobe stores that information in short-term ...

As the name suggests, FTD affects the frontal lobe and/or temporal lobes of the brain. Signs and symptoms vary, depending on which part of the brain is atrophying ... or legs (often worse on one side ...

Pluto has five moons—“fun-looking space potatoes,” Singer calls them—and its largest is a behemoth. Charon was discovered in ...

You,’ your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no ...

To investigate, they removed part of the lobes from multiple comb ... and when the researchers poked one lobe the whole body responded. This seems to suggest that they’d merged all the way ...

A pair of ctenophores, or comb jellies, can fuse their bodies together, merging their digestive and nervous systems, without ...