lobe
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Commercial speculation is only one lobe of the American story; so too is public-spiritedness, of which there is no better example than Hoover Dam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Barbara Sahakian, a neuropsychologist at the University of Cambridge who specialises in ADHD, said the condition affects the brain's frontal lobe, which play a key role in organisation and focus.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
However, the widely repeated claim that brain development, especially in the frontal lobe, stops at 25 is not accurate.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2026
“I think there’s something to be said for frontal lobe development,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
From one lobe, a golden earring dangles, catching the candlelight like a mirror.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
The frontal lobes play an important role in planning, decision-making, and other executive functions, while the occipital lobes are central to visual processing.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Participants who spent a large portion of their workday sitting actually had larger frontal and occipital lobes and lower white matter hyperintensity volumes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
"This dramatic layering of young jets inside older, exhausted lobes is the signature of an episodic AGN -- a galaxy whose central engine keeps turning on and off over cosmic timescales."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026
To explore the biology behind TLE, researchers examined donated human brain tissue that had been surgically removed from the temporal lobes of epilepsy patients.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 25, 2025
Students of neurology or psychology study his case because it illustrates how the lobes of the frontal cortex—the two halves of your brain that meet in your forehead—are the seat of "executive functions."
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
