Frontal Lobes

Frontal Lobes

Everything You Want to Know About the Frontal Lobes.<br />Table of Contents<br />Senior Executive of The Brain and Personality - 1<br />Functional Overview - 7<br />Functional Localization of Symptoms - 11<br />The Frontal lobe Personality - 15<br />Frontal Lobotomy - 17<br />Loss of Inhibitions and Impulse Control - 23<br />Uncontrolled Laughter and Mirth - 25<br />Orbital Frontal Personality - 25<br />Intellectual Deficits, Loss of Concern for Consequences - 26<br />IQ Testing & Right vs Left Frontal Damage - 29<br />Frontal Lobe Regulation of the Neocortex - 33<br />Thalamic Control Over Neocortical Activity - 34<br />Overview: Frontal Control Over Arousal - 36<br />Right Frontal Lobe Control Over Arousal - 38<br />Disinhibited Sexuality - 41<br />Mania - 43<br />Emotional & Prosodic Speech - 45<br />Tangential, Pressure, & Circumlocutory Speech - 48<br />Confabulation, Delusional & False Memories - 49<br />Broca’s Expressive Aphasia - 50<br />Depression, Aphasia, & Apathy - 55<br />Psychosis, and Blunted (Negative) Schizophrenia - 59<br />Striatum: Emotion, Pleasure, Body Language, Schizophrenia - 61<br />Movement & Motor Areas of the Frontal Lobes - 65<br />Movement, Memory and Multi-modal Motor Neurons - 71<br />The Corticospinal (Pyramidal) Tract - 72<br />Left Frontal Developmental Dominance for Motor Functions - 78<br />Supplementary Motor Ares: Functional Neuroanatomy - 79<br />Secondary / Premotor Motor Areas - 82<br />Primary Motor Areas - 83<br />Paralysis - 88<br />Exner’s Writing Area - 88<br />Agraphia - 89<br />Frontal Eye Fields - 90<br />Visual Scanning Deficits and Neglect - 93<br />Conclusion: The Frontal Lobes - 94