The parietal lobe, located near the back and top of the head, is part of the cerebral cortex. It is involved in the reception and processing of sensory information from the body. It controls goal ...

The exact role of posterior parietal cortex (PPC ... Images of individual subject brain anatomy were determined with a high-resolution MRI scans. Scans were acquired on a 1.5-Tesla Philips ...

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).

There was an association between having less REM with smaller volumes of the inferior parietal region and precuneus (β = −75.54 and −31.92 mm 3 per −1 percentage point of REM, respectively).