If you look at the first slide there, that's the temporal lobes, frontal lobes, parietal lobes, OK the lobes that constitute the brain.

Those are the frontal lobes.

I wonder why we have ear lobes.

I wonder what ear lobes are for.

I wonder why we have ear lobes.

So, is it all in the lobes?

The big thing about humans, is their frontal lobes.

It comes completely conscious. It's got state of the art lobes.

Michael Persinger's God Helmet, that bombards your temporal lobes with electromagnetic waves.

Now, you go to this one and you see how much more the frontal lobes are lighting up.

Faces are easy to see because we have an additional evolved facial recognition software in our temporal lobes.

A sigma bond is one where there's an overlap kind of in the direction in which the lobes are pointed.

They say it's very good for the brain, you are using the frontal lobes of the brain to do this kind of switching.

like the shape of your ear lobes, but they have consequences in thought and behavior that are well illustrated in this famous cartoon by Charles Addams

And if you look, tucked away inside the inner surface of the temporal lobes you can't see it there is a little structure called the fusiform gyrus.

And indeed, at the top, you'll see before the surgery, the areas in blue are the areas that use less glucose than normal, predominantly the parietal and temporal lobes.

You know, thinking about it, what's so interesting is that while we sit here, in this room, having this conversation, you're using those frontal parts of your lobes, aren't you?

And when you're happy what we call positive valence you squirt dopamine into the prefrontal lobes, which makes you a breadth first problem solver you're more susceptible to interruption you do out of the box thinking.

So practicing throwing things has been shown to stimulate the frontal and parietal lobes, which have to do with visual acuity, 3D understanding, and structural problem solving, so it helps develop their visualization skills and their predictive ability.

We're able to drive down area 25, down to a more normal level, and we're able to turn back online the frontal lobes of the brain, and indeed we're seeing very striking results in these patients with severe depression.

And then intense magnetic fields directed some of the energy of that gravitational collapse and some of the matter back out in the form of tremendous jets, which illuminated lobes with the brilliance of I think it's a trillion suns.

Now, one recent discovery that has been made by researchers in Italy, in Parma, by Giacomo Rizzolatti and his colleagues, is a group of neurons called mirror neurons, which are on the front of the brain in the frontal lobes.

Here we compare relative angular diameter distances to source as the different , and in the past things like isophotal sizes of giant elliptical galaxies, mean seperation of galaxies in clusters, or seperation of radio lobes in radio sources, we're all suggested that as standard rulers.

What you are looking at is the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid, and it's been turned on its back, and what I hope you can see are these two glowing lobes and these house the Vibrio fischeri cells, they live in there, at high cell number that molecule is there, and they're making light.

And we placed electrodes in area 25, and in the top scan you see before the operation, area 25, the sadness area is red hot, and the frontal lobes are shut down in blue, and then, after three months of continuous stimulation, 24 hours a day, or six months of continuous stimulation, we have a complete reversal of this.