Lobes

Question 1

Frontal Function

Answer 1

voluntary movement, intellect, orientation

Broca’s Area: speech, concentration

personality, temper, judgement, reasoning, behavior, self-awareness, execitive function

Question 2

Parietal Function

Answer 2

touch, kinesthesia, vibration, temperature

recieves info from brain regarding hearing, vision, motor, sensory, memory

provides meaning for objects

interprets language and words

spatial and visual perception`

Question 3

Temporal Function

Answer 3

primary auditory processing/olfaction

Wernicke’s Area: understanding/production of speech, verbal/general memory

rear section enables interpretation of other’s emotions and reactions

Question 4

Occipital Function

Answer 4

main visual processing center

processes color, light, and shapes

judges distance, provides ability to see in 3D

Question 5

Frontal Impairment

Answer 5

contralateral weakness

perseveration, inattention

personality changes, antisocial behavior

impaired concentration, apathy

Broca’s Aphasia (expressive deficits)

delayed/poor initiation

emotional lability

Question 6

Pariteal Impairment

Answer 6

dominant hemisphere = agraphia, alexia, agnosia

non-domintant hemisphere = dressing apraxia, constructional apraxia, anosognosia (impaired awareness of illness)

contralateral sensory deficits

impaired language comprehension

impaired taste

Question 7

Temporal Impairment

Answer 7

learning deficits

Wernicke’s Aphasia: receptive deficits

antisocial, aggressive behaviors

difficulty with facial recognition

difficulty with memory, memory loss

inability to categorize objects

Question 8

Occiptial Impairments

Answer 8

homonymous hemianopsia (loss of half of the field of view on the same side in both eyes)

impaired extraocular muscle movement and visual deficits

impaired color recognition

reading and writing impairment

cotrical blindness with bilateral lobe involvement