How to Use frontal lobe in a Sentence

frontal lobe

noun
  • That control lies in the frontal lobe of the opposite side of the brain.
    Suzanne O’Sullivan, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • The mass sat on her right frontal lobe, close to an area that controls the fine movements of the left hand.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The fundraiser wrote that the fight left the girl with a skull fracture and damage to her frontal lobe.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • But his frontal lobe—where all the fun stuff and the action was, the laughs and the curiosity—was fine.
    The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The disease quite literally shrinks the frontal lobe of the brain.
    Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2022
  • Part of Caleb's frontal lobe was removed to relieve swelling in his brain.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Tyson suffered a brain bleed and damage to his frontal lobe from the beating.
    Jake Dima, Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Because the injury was confined to the right side of Arik's brain, mostly the right frontal lobe.
    Star Tribune, 10 Jan. 2021
  • She’d been shot in the forehead, where the bullet pierced her frontal lobe and exited the top of her skull.
    Amber Hunt, Cincinnati.com, 19 May 2020
  • Teens don’t have fully formed frontal lobes, the part of the brain that controls impulse and judgment.
    Maida Lynn Chen, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Doctors removed the baseball-sized growth from her frontal lobe.
    al, 22 May 2022
  • The frontal lobe is also the brain area injured in one of the most famous cases in neuroscience.
    Tim Requarth, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Each muscle is controlled by motor neurons that reside in the brain in the frontal lobe.
    Katherine Harmon, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2012
  • Children have to learn how to lie; people with certain types of frontal lobe injuries may not be able to do it.
    Theodor Schaarschmidt, Scientific American, 11 July 2018
  • However, due to its placement in the left frontal lobe of my brain, the resection had left me unable to speak.
    Danielle Soviero, Bon Appétit, 30 June 2022
  • The complication caused swelling of her brain tissue and a lesion on her frontal lobe.
    Stephanie Toone, ajc, 20 Apr. 2020
  • 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, 16 July 2019
  • And in my lack of frontal lobe development, that never would have occurred to me.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 23 June 2023
  • One man who suffered frontal lobe damage had a sudden urge to hoard bullets.
    Stephanie Preston, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Hernandez’s frontal lobe is covered in dark brown spots.
    Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 7 May 2018
  • In particular, the frontal lobe of the brain is where impulses are controlled.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN, 24 July 2023
  • At that point in your life your frontal lobe isn't fully formed and your idea of self isn't fully actualized.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
  • Instead of brain tissue, the doctors found a 9cm (~3.5 inch) pressurized pocket of air where much of his right frontal lobe ought to be.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The part of the brain that seems most responsible for prospective memory is an area of the frontal lobes, referred to as Brodmann’s area 10.
    Sarah Raskin, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2024
  • Back in 2016, doctors discovered a walnut-sized tumor (a glioma) on his right frontal lobe.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2024
  • The brain disorder is caused by degeneration of the brain's frontal lobe.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
  • But because his frontal lobe hasn’t finished growing, he [messes up] and his whole life is destroyed.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 May 2022
  • About 10 years ago, I was diagnosed with benign frontal lobe epilepsy.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 22 June 2021
  • These are kids, primarily teenagers, whose frontal lobes aren’t yet fully-formed.
    Deborah Alexander, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
  • On autopsy, the damage to his brain was concentrated in the frontal lobe, the region of the brain which affects decision making and impulsiveness.
    Kate Cunningham, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2024

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