Relating to both the front of the brain (frontal lobe) and the side of the brain (temporal lobe).
Combining fronto- (Latin frons, referring to the frontal lobe) and temporal (from Latin temporalis, 'relating to the temple'). This neuroscience term became prominent as brain imaging revealed diseases affecting these connected regions.
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a type of brain disease that damages personality and behavior before memory—it's what affected some famous people, and scientists studying it revealed how our personalities actually live in these specific brain regions!
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