The scans showed 'acute infarcts in both the parietal lobes' of her brain - also known as strokes in the part of the brain located behind the frontal lobe. A parietal lobe stroke is caused by an ...

She had a closed head injury and right parietal infarct that resulted in hemiparesis of her left side. She had been receiving other nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking agents to facilitate ...

Associations seen between less short wave sleep and rapid eye movement sleep with smaller inferior parietal region volumes. HealthDay News — Sleep deficiency is associated with atrophy of the inferior ...

These findings provide some evidence that reduced slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement sleep (REM) may contribute to brain atrophy, thereby increasing the risk of Alzheimer disease (AD).