Brain imaging studies have found that parts of the temporal lobe activate during these hallucinations.

No student has ever complained of pains in the front lobe of the left side of the brain.

The bell curve shows 150 controls, and what is being looked at is the difference between the right and the left frontal lobe.

To test this theory we are using trans cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to reduce the excitability of portions of the temporal lobe and Broca's region.

In red is an area that active in the prefrontal cortex, the frontal lobe of the brain, and in blue is this area that was deactivated.

And the temporal lobe hallucinations are all sense hallucinations, full of feeling, full of familiarity, located in space and time, The Charles Bonnet ones are quite different.

You'll see broad bacterial groups, and if you look at the shape of this pink lobe, it tells you something about the relative abundance of each group.

And one of the main reasons our brain got so big is because it got a new part, called the frontal lobe. And particularly, a part called the pre frontal cortex.

The other one is the frontal lobe, which controls how we sustain attention, and another one is the anterior cingulate, which controls how we allocate and regulate attention and resolve conflict.

The currently active delta lobe is called the Birdfoot Delta, after its shape, or the Balize Delta, after La Balize, Louisiana, the first French settlement at the mouth of the Mississippi.

And we think, at least in this preliminary it's one study it's probably wrong, but it's one study we think that at least a reasonable hypothesis is that, to be creative, you have to have this weird dissociation in your frontal lobe.

I do have to say, somebody I read recently that van Gogh wasn't really necessarily psychotic, that he might have had temporal lobe seizures, and that might have caused his spurt of creativity, and I don't I suppose it does something in some part of your brain.