A new study has identified common factors in people who have had out-of-body experiences (OBEs), the odd phenomenon where ...

Angular gyrus is responsible for functions like spatial concepts, retrieval of memory, number processing, apart from various processes involved in language.

Noninvasive brain stimulation techniques, including transcranial direct current stimulation, are effective nonpharmacologic treatments for insomnia.

The left angular gyrus is a region located in the parietal lobe of the brain. It is involved in tasks such as reading, writing, language processing, comprehension of complex stimuli, ...

Causal Evidence for a Mechanism of Semantic Integration in the Angular Gyrus as Revealed by High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation. Journal of Neuroscience , 2016; 36 (13): 3829 ...

"I think he's probably had a little left temporal, maybe angular gyrus-area stroke," he tells the students and doctors, once they're assembled outside the patient's room.

A region of the brain known as the angular gyrus is partly responsible for the human ability to understand metaphor, according to research led by V. S. Ramachandran, director of the Center for ...

The angular gyrus is more developed in humans than in other primates and is located in the brain at the junction of areas specialized for processing touch, hearing and vision.

As suggested by previous neurological investigations on OBEs 1,2,3 and other body-cognition disorders 6,7,8, the angular gyrus could be a crucial node in a larger neural circuit that mediates ...