Frontal Lobe

Synonyms

frontal cortex

Description

Front part of the brain; involved in planning, organizing, problem solving, selective attention, personality and a variety of higher cognitive functions including behavior and emotions [Source: Brenda].

Structure

Changes associated with this tissue

Due to the potentially large amount of high-throughput molecular changes these have been excluded below. You can view the full list of 85 changes through the filter results page.

Physiological (2) View on results page

Layer-specific dendritic regression of pyramidal cells Synaptic density slightly decreases at advanced ages

Molecular (1; 82 in total) View on results page

Changes from high-throughput approaches are excluded but can be viewed on the results page.

MTHFR methylation decrease