Frontal Lobe

"Frontal Lobe" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The part of the cerebral hemisphere anterior to the central sulcus, and anterior and superior to the lateral sulcus.

Descriptor ID	D005625
MeSH Number(s)	A08.186.211.730.885.287.500.270
Concept/Terms	Frontal Lobe Frontal Lobe Frontal Lobes Lobe, Frontal Lobes, Frontal Lobus Frontalis Frontali, Lobus Frontalis, Lobus Lobus Frontali Frontal Cortex Cortex, Frontal Cortices, Frontal Frontal Cortices Supplementary Eye Field Supplementary Eye Field Eye Field, Supplementary Eye Fields, Supplementary Field, Supplementary Eye Fields, Supplementary Eye Supplementary Eye Fields Frontal Eye Fields Frontal Eye Fields Eye Field, Frontal Eye Fields, Frontal Field, Frontal Eye Fields, Frontal Eye Frontal Eye Field Precentral Gyrus Precentral Gyrus Gyrus, Precentral Gyrus Precentralis Gyrus Precentrali Precentrali, Gyrus Precentralis, Gyrus Anterior Central Gyrus Central Gyrus, Anterior Gyrus, Anterior Central

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Anatomy [A]
Nervous System [A08]
Central Nervous System [A08.186]
Brain [A08.186.211]
Prosencephalon [A08.186.211.730]
Telencephalon [A08.186.211.730.885]
Cerebrum [A08.186.211.730.885.287]
Cerebral Cortex [A08.186.211.730.885.287.500]
Frontal Lobe [A08.186.211.730.885.287.500.270]

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Bar chart showing 50 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2009

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2000	0	1	1
2001	2	0	2
2003	1	1	2
2004	1	1	2
2005	1	0	1
2006	0	4	4
2007	1	4	5
2008	1	5	6
2009	5	5	10
2010	0	2	2
2011	2	1	3
2012	4	0	4
2014	2	1	3
2015	0	1	1
2018	1	0	1
2019	0	1	1
2021	0	1	1
2024	0	1	1

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Braun M, Sevao M, Keil SA, Gino E, Wang MX, Lee J, Haveliwala MA, Klein E, Agarwal S, Pedersen T, Rhodes CH, Jansson D, Cook D, Peskind E, Perl DP, Piantino J, Schindler AG, Iliff JJ. Macroscopic changes in aquaporin-4 underlie blast traumatic brain injury-related impairment in glymphatic function. Brain. 2024 Jun 03; 147(6):2214-2229.

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Sheppard SM, Meier EL, Kim KT, Breining BL, Keator LM, Tang B, Caffo BS, Hillis AE. Neural correlates of syntactic comprehension: A longitudinal study. Brain Lang. 2022 02; 225:105068.

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Mirman D, Kraft AE, Harvey DY, Brecher AR, Schwartz MF. Mapping articulatory and grammatical subcomponents of fluency deficits in post-stroke aphasia. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2019 10; 19(5):1286-1298.

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Chernoff BL, Teghipco A, Garcea FE, Sims MH, Paul DA, Tivarus ME, Smith SO, Pilcher WH, Mahon BZ. A Role for the Frontal Aslant Tract in Speech Planning: A Neurosurgical Case Study. J Cogn Neurosci. 2018 05; 30(5):752-769.

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Mirman D, Chen Q, Zhang Y, Wang Z, Faseyitan OK, Coslett HB, Schwartz MF. Neural organization of spoken language revealed by lesion-symptom mapping. Nat Commun. 2015 Apr 16; 6:6762.

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Parekh NN, Desai NS, Feeko KJ. A localized brain lesion resulting in isolated hand weakness. PM R. 2015 Feb; 7(2):220-1.

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Bae BI, Tietjen I, Atabay KD, Evrony GD, Johnson MB, Asare E, Wang PP, Murayama AY, Im K, Lisgo SN, Overman L, ?estan N, Chang BS, Barkovich AJ, Grant PE, Top?u M, Politsky J, Okano H, Piao X, Walsh CA. Evolutionarily dynamic alternative splicing of GPR56 regulates regional cerebral cortical patterning. Science. 2014 Feb 14; 343(6172):764-8.

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Nygaard HB, Lippa CF, Mehdi D, Baehring JM. A Novel Presenilin 1 Mutation in Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease With Prominent Frontal Features. Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen. 2014 Aug; 29(5):433-5.

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Thothathiri M, Gagliardi M, Schwartz MF. Subdivision of frontal cortex mechanisms for language production in aphasia. Neuropsychologia. 2012 Dec; 50(14):3284-94.

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Manning JR, Sperling MR, Sharan A, Rosenberg EA, Kahana MJ. Spontaneously reactivated patterns in frontal and temporal lobe predict semantic clustering during memory search. J Neurosci. 2012 Jun 27; 32(26):8871-8.

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