The Frontal Lobe affects personality, judgment, reasoning, problem solving, and inhibition, perhaps the highest cortical functions, are the functions of the lobe. An area designated for language comprehension called Broca’s Area is contained within the frontal lobe hemisphere.
FUNCTION:
- It lets us know what we are doing in our environment
- It’s how we initiate activity in response to our environment
- Judgments’ we make about what occurs in our daily activities
- Control our emotional response
- Controls our expressive language
- Assigns meaning to the words we choose
- Involves word association
- Memory for habits and motor activities
OBSERVED PROBLEMS
- Loss of movement in various body parts (paralysis)
- Inability to plan and sequence of complete movement needed
- Multi-stepped tasks, such as making coffee (Sequencing)
- Loss of spontaneity in interacting with others
- Loss of flexibility in thinking
- Persistence of a single thought (Preservation
- Inability to focus on tasks (Attending)
- Mood changes (Emotionally Labile)
- Changes in social behavior
- Changes in personality
- Difficulty with problem solving
- Inability to express language (Broca’s Aphasia)
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