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

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

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

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, ...

So the angular gyrus performs a very elementary type of abstraction--extracting the common denominator from a set of strikingly dissimilar entities. We do not know exactly how it does this job.

"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.

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 ...

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 ...