Really, consciousness is seated in the frontal lobe.

And he studied Alzheimer's patients that had frontal temporal lobe dementia.

And you can see here, he's starting to get more energy into the frontal lobe.

And one of the main reasons our brain got so big is because it got a new part, called the frontal lobe. And particularly, a part called the pre frontal cortex.

The bell curve shows 150 controls, and what is being looked at is the difference between the right and the left frontal lobe.

In red is an area that active in the prefrontal cortex, the frontal lobe of the brain, and in blue is this area that was deactivated.

Three dimensional play fires up the cerebellum, puts a lot of impulses into the frontal lobe the executive portion helps contextual memory be developed, and and, and, and.

Just very simply, the three parts of the brain the frontal lobe, where you focus your attention and concentration you have the temporal lobe, where you form images and keep memories and the posterior part of your brain, which contains the cerebellum, which controls motion and the brain stem, where you have your basic maintenance functions, like heartbeat and respiration.

And we think, at least in this preliminary it's one study it's probably wrong, but it's one study we think that at least a reasonable hypothesis is that, to be creative, you have to have this weird dissociation in your frontal lobe.

We know that if you stimulate the temporal lobe, you can produce a feeling of out of body experiences, near death experiences, which you can do by just touching an electrode to the temporal lobe there.

And in particular, one area of the temporal lobe is called the fusiform gyrus.

And you know, of course, what'll happen if you do a pre frontal lobotomy.

When images are formed, a higher part of the visual cortex is involved in the temporal lobe.

It's been shown to promote pre frontal cortex development where a lot of cognition is happening.

And you see that in humans, because of the development of the pre frontal cortex, it's called.

Now, you go to this one and you see how much more the frontal lobes are lighting up.

And the temporal lobe hallucinations are all sense hallucinations, full of feeling, full of familiarity, located in space and time, coherent, dramatic.

It had to add to the frontal part, so that you would have instincts, because they had to cope on land.

That is why, with support from the rest of our continent, we have engaged in a frontal attack on corruption and impunity.

You have the middle area, where the temporal lobe might be, in here, and the posterior portion, where the maintenance functions are in the back.

It goes to the nucleus accumbens, all the way up to the prefrontal cortex, orbital frontal cortex, where decisions are made, high level.

If you look at the first slide there, that's the temporal lobes, frontal lobes, parietal lobes, OK the lobes that constitute the brain.

Two months into that mandate, we can already see an energetic and ambitious frontal approach to the most pressing matters on the organization's agenda.

Well, we know exactly where it happens, in the temporal lobe, right across, sort of above your ear there, in a little structure called the fusiform gyrus.

You'll see broad bacterial groups, and if you look at the shape of this pink lobe, it tells you something about the relative abundance of each group.

Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.

The balconies come down, you see that the orchestra begins to have a rake that's frontal towards the end stage, and the seats come in.

So people who have damage to their orbital frontal cortex seem to be unable to feel regret in the face of even obviously very poor decisions.

When he was trading fours with me, improvising versus memorized, his language areas lit up, his Broca's area, which is inferior frontal gyrus on the left.

In order to have the car seat approved, you need to pass certain federal standards, all of which involve slamming your car into a direct frontal crash.

Now what does a pre frontal cortex do for you that should justify the entire architectural overhaul of the human skull in the blink of evolutionary time?

Well, it turns out the pre frontal cortex does lots of things, but one of the most important things it does is it is an experience simulator.

There is also a rare thing called temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes, if one has this, one may feel oneself transported back to a time and place in the past.

And I will mention that I actually developed temporal lobe seizures a number of years ago, but it was during the time I was writing my last book, and some people say that book is quite different.

So they decided I didn't know this, again, I found this out later that the only thing that could be done was for this 43 year old man to have a pre frontal lobotomy.

One thing that's interesting if you look at frontal impact crashes when the car crashes, the front hits into something indeed, what you see is that the car seats look a little bit better.

They connect themselves into various sources, into a kind of complex vector matrix that isn't really frontal but is really embedded in the lives, and in the history of a city, and of a people.

Now, one recent discovery that has been made by researchers in Italy, in Parma, by Giacomo Rizzolatti and his colleagues, is a group of neurons called mirror neurons, which are on the front of the brain in the frontal lobes.

The pattern is that those people, every one of them I looked at, who was a murderer, and was a serial killer, had damage to their orbital cortex, which is right above the eyes, the orbits, and also the interior part of the temporal lobe.

So practicing throwing things has been shown to stimulate the frontal and parietal lobes, which have to do with visual acuity, 3D understanding, and structural problem solving, so it gives a sense it helps develop their visualization skills and their predictive ability.

I do have to say, somebody I read recently that van Gogh wasn't really necessarily psychotic, that he might have had temporal lobe seizures, and that might have caused his spurt of creativity, and I don't I suppose it does something in some part of your brain.

It was impossible. So they decided there was no therapy, there was no treatment. But there was one treatment, which actually had been pioneered at the Hartford hospital in the early 1940s, and you can imagine what it was. It was pre frontal lobotomy.

But the price that was supposedly paid by the Palestinians touched another neuralgic lobe in the European mind. Because Europe remains entangled in this seemingly insoluble conundrum, Israelis see it as trying to compensate for its lack of political effectiveness in Middle East diplomacy with unbearably self righteous and moralistic talk.

The Egyptian question is already high on the agenda indeed, it spilled into the streets after President Mohamed Morsi s non violent coup attempt. Morsi s timing was remarkable the day after winning international acclaim for his successful efforts to broker a truce in Gaza, he staged a frontal assault on Egypt s nascent democracy.

For now, the north appears divided. But a hardening of the mood there, and a brokered armistice between its disenchanted youth and older but vastly more experienced political war horses, will not only present PRONACO with a formidable opponent, but could throw West Africa into turmoil if matters degenerate into a frontal clash.