frontal lobe
nounDefinition of frontal lobe
: the anterior division of each cerebral hemisphere
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Busey's frontal lobe damage, which made him more impulsive and prone to anger and delusions of grandeur, also impacted his creative mastery — his ability to compose music. — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, "Gary Busey, Set to Play God, Believes "There Is No Death"," 22 Aug. 2019 Lin performed a surgery removing part of the frontal lobe of Williams' brain, which cured her of the seizures she's been having for two decades due to epilepsy. — Daily Pilot, "A young woman can now live long and prosper, after brain surgery cures her of seizures," 16 July 2019 The fact that evolution has prioritized the development of a big frontal lobe in our brain (which gives us excellent executive and analytical abilities) over a natural ability to be happy, tells us a lot about nature’s priorities. — Rafael Euba, Quartzy, "Why striving for happiness makes people miserable," 23 July 2019 Anyone with a fully functional frontal lobe could have imagined the Lakers would be getting Anthony Davis and would then be positioned nicely to win championships again. — Los Angeles Times, "Letters: Dodgers fans still seeking relief," 19 July 2019 Burton suffered a traumatic brain injury when a bullet punctured his left frontal lobe during the Spanish-American War. — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, "How One Museum Is Giving a Voice to Former Mental Health Patients," 2 July 2019 After doctors appointments and trips to the emergency room, Palma went to see specialists at Mount Sinai Hospital who identified a lesion on her left frontal lobe, near a speech center. — Lindsey Bever, Twin Cities, "Surgeons opened her skull to remove a cancerous tumor. Instead, they found a tapeworm.," 7 June 2019 But people who have had a large fraction of the frontal lobe removed — as used to happen in neurosurgical treatments of epilepsy — can seem remarkably normal, Koch says. — Quanta Magazine, "Neuroscience Readies for a Showdown Over Consciousness Ideas," 6 Mar. 2019 Adults have fully formed brains, complete with mature frontal lobes, but adolescents do not. — Jessica Lahey, Washington Post, "Fewer teens are drinking. But a group of pediatricians is begging parents to be vigilant.," 24 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'frontal lobe.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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