L3- THE LOBES AND THEIR FUNCTION

Question 1

FRONTAL LOBE

Responsible for
Areas
Lesion

Answer 1

Responsible for: movement, judgement, personality and language

Areas:

1. Primary motor cortex for planned control of fine motor movements
2. Prefrontal cortex for decision making

Lesion: may be secluded or antisocial

Question 2

PARIETAL LOBE

Responsible for
Area
Lesion

Answer 2

Responsible for: sensory processing if touch pain, temp

Area: primary somatosensoey cortex

Lesion: NO CONSCIOUS PERCEPTION OF TOUCH

Question 3

TEMPORAL LOBE

Responsible for
Areas
Damage

Answer 3

Responsible for: auditory processing

Areas:

1. Hippocampus for memory
2. Amygdala for emotions

Lesion: epilepsy—> visual and auditory hallucinations and memory lapses.
Also affected by dementia

Damage: hearing sequences, motion detection, language comprehension, naming objects, speech production (lacks verbs and nouns), face recognition

Question 4

OCCIPITAL LOBE

Responsible for
Lesion

Answer 4

Responsible for: vison

Lesion: CORTICAL BLINDNESS

HTM—> edema—> temporary loss of vision

Color agnosia, hallucinations, agraphia