Frontal Lobes

Everything You Want to Know About the Frontal Lobes.
Table of Contents
Senior Executive of The Brain and Personality - 1
Functional Overview - 7
Functional Localization of Symptoms - 11
The Frontal lobe Personality - 15
Frontal Lobotomy - 17
Loss of Inhibitions and Impulse Control - 23
Uncontrolled Laughter and Mirth - 25
Orbital Frontal Personality - 25
Intellectual Deficits, Loss of Concern for Consequences - 26
IQ Testing & Right vs Left Frontal Damage - 29
Frontal Lobe Regulation of the Neocortex - 33
Thalamic Control Over Neocortical Activity - 34
Overview: Frontal Control Over Arousal - 36
Right Frontal Lobe Control Over Arousal - 38
Disinhibited Sexuality - 41
Mania - 43
Emotional & Prosodic Speech - 45
Tangential, Pressure, & Circumlocutory Speech - 48
Confabulation, Delusional & False Memories - 49
Broca’s Expressive Aphasia - 50
Depression, Aphasia, & Apathy - 55
Psychosis, and Blunted (Negative) Schizophrenia - 59
Striatum: Emotion, Pleasure, Body Language, Schizophrenia - 61
Movement & Motor Areas of the Frontal Lobes - 65
Movement, Memory and Multi-modal Motor Neurons - 71
The Corticospinal (Pyramidal) Tract - 72
Left Frontal Developmental Dominance for Motor Functions - 78
Supplementary Motor Ares: Functional Neuroanatomy - 79
Secondary / Premotor Motor Areas - 82
Primary Motor Areas - 83
Paralysis - 88
Exner’s Writing Area - 88
Agraphia - 89
Frontal Eye Fields - 90
Visual Scanning Deficits and Neglect - 93
Conclusion: The Frontal Lobes - 94