11 a.b.b. frontal lobe syndromes

Question 1

frontal lobe domains

Answer 1

1. restraint
2. initiative
3. order

Question 2

frontal lobe functions

Answer 2

1. working memory
2. shifting cognitive set
3. selective attention
4. integrating info from limbic + heteromodal association cortex

Question 3

what controls executive control of cognition? executive control of social emo behavior?

Answer 3

1. lateral prefrontal cortex

2. VMPC

Question 4

what is the somatic marker hypothesis?

Answer 4

-attributes patient’s inability to make advantageous decisions in real to a defect in emotional (somatic) mech

Question 5

what happens with patients deprived of emo/somatic signal?

Answer 5

• rely on cost-benefit analysis
  1. degrade speed of deliberation
  2. degrade accuracy

Question 6

anatomical sectors for WM and decision making

Answer 6

• WM = dorsolateral + ventrolateral

- Decision = ventromedial + orbitofrontal

Question 7

region for motor impulse control

Answer 7

anterior cerebral cortex

Question 8

region for cognitive impulse control

Answer 8

lateral PFC

Question 9

what tests cognitive impulse control?

Answer 9

• wisconsin card sorting

- stroop

Question 10

signs of PFC damage

Answer 10

• flat affect

- lack of self awareness