Dementia

Question 1

What is the frontal lobe involved in?

Answer 1

1. Emotions
2. Expression
3. Personality
4. Problem-solving/intellectual function
5. Judgment
6. Motor function
7. Language
8. Motivation
9. Social behaviour
10. Praxis - voluntary skilled movements
11. Saccadic eye movement

Question 2

What is the temporal lobe involved in?

Answer 2

• Memory
• Speech
• Language comprehension
• Auditory and visual perception
• Olfactory sensation
• Emotional responses
• Facial recognition

Question 3

What is the parietal lobe involved in?

Answer 3

• Learned skills such as reading, writing and calculations (dominant)
• Recognition of objects
• Spatial awareness (non-dominant)
• Ability to perform complex skills such as driving and constructing things
• Post central gyrus - sensory cortex
• Wernicke’s area - receptive comprehension

Question 4

What is the occipital lobe involved in?

Answer 4

• Spatial processing
• Ability to determine between colours
• Spatial awareness
• Colour and object recognition
• Could also lead to difficulties with activities that require hand and eye coordination such as picking up items