lobe
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Their modeling identified an area in the left frontal lobe as a likely starting point from which synaptic loss could spread into connected regions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Somebody who was managing this temporal lobe epilepsy, but also somebody who works in humanitarian aid field in this moment of unprecedented attacks against our aid workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
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
A brain "address" can specify left or right hemisphere, the lobe, the nearest ridge or fold, and whether the location is on top or bottom, inside or out, and front or back.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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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
Two bright beams stream outward from the star, lighting up fast-moving polar lobes that punch through older, slower rings of material arranged in concentric arcs.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2026
Instead, the arcs, lobes, and central dust cloud likely formed through a coordinated series of sputtering outbursts deep within the carbon-rich core of the aging star.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2026
The man’s gestures as he broke the kola nut apart into five lobes were eerily like Nnaemeka’s, as was the set of his mouth, with the lower lip jutting out.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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