Brain Lobes functions and dysfunctions

Question 1

Frontal

Answer 1

Function: Movement, attention, inhibition, calculations, expressive language (understands but can’t articulate words), reasoning, planning, and judgement

Diseases: Frontaltemporal dz (Picks), AD, primary progressive aphasia, stroke, vascular dementia, and broca’s aphasia

Question 2

Temporal

Answer 2

Function: Auditory language, memory processing, language comprehension, and receptive language (does not understand, words are clear)

Diseases: Primary progressive aphasia, wernicke’s syndrome, AD, stroke, vascular dementia

Question 3

Parietal

Answer 3

Function: Sensory input/translation, naming, reading comprehension, writing, right-left orientation, constructional ability, praxis, music recognition, touch, pressure, temperature, pain, vibration, position sense

Diseases: AD, dementia with Lewy Bodies, and vascular dementia

Question 4

Occipital

Answer 4

Function: visual processing

Disease: functional blindness