Some brain disorders are straightforward, such as the direct frontal lobe assault of a concussion or traumatic brain injury.

Jessica Gartrell has the same name, the same Social Security number and the same fingerprints she had before 50 days in the hospital in 2005. But in many ways she's like a character in a ...

It’s all in her head. A New Jersey teacher claims a “frontal lobe syndrome” left her helpless against the advances of the six 14- and 15-year-old students with whom she’s accused of having sex at ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MAPLEWOOD – A New Jersey high school teacher ...

Exhaustion syndrome, also called burnout and exhaustion depression, leaves objectively measurable changes in the brain -- including reduced activity in the frontal lobes and altered regulation of the ...

Background A 66-year-old man presented with a 3-year history of personality changes marked by increasing apathy, social withdrawal and deficits in complex attention, and a 1-year history of ...

As if grappling with memory loss isn’t hard enough, a subset of people with Alzheimer’s disease have behavioral problems that rival their cognitive ones. Previously dubbed “frontal variant AD,” this ...

A New Jersey teacher, whose attorneys argued brain surgery left her vulnerable, has pled guilty to having sexual contact with multiple students, authorities said. Nicole Dufault, 40, was a language ...

Teacher Nicole DuFault did not want to have sex with a half-dozen of her students - her damaged brain made her do it. That is what the 36-year-old woman's attorney argued this week, pointing a finger ...

These days, everyone seems to know about the frontal lobes; the parts of the brain that continue to develop through our teens and into our early twenties. To be more precise, the area that is commonly ...