Briain lobes

Question 1

FRONTAL

Answer 1

Injured
- Expressive aphasia – inability to form words.
- Expressive dysphasia – difficulty in forming words.
- Both the above can result from stroke.

Function
- control motor aspects of speech

Question 2

PARIETAL

Answer 2

Function
- major area for somatic sensory input
- Storage, analysis, and interpretation of stimuli
Injury
- LEFT — patient may have difficulty finding their way
around new, or even familiar, places
- RIGHT — Damage to this area may disrupt a person’s
ability to understand spoken and/or written language.

Question 3

OCCIPITAL

Answer 3

Function
- primary visual cortex
- Receives input from the retinas
Injured
- Become blind
- Blurry vision

Question 4

TEMPORAL

Answer 4

Function
- process auditory stimui
- Receive and interpret speech
- Memory consolidation and smell
Injured
- Receptive aphasia – unable to read and understand
speech
- May be able to say a string of words but they don’t
make sense, and therefore not a sentence
- Calling things by the wrong name
- Memory consolidation