Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a group of diseases that damage the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. These lobes, located on the front and sides of your brain, are important for personality, behavior, and language, so FTD can cause symptoms beyond the loss of memory and thinking ab...
While not limited to these, frontal lobe injury can clearly manifest itself in the following symptoms:Executive functioning deficits; Difficulties with complex processing; Mood and emotional changes, i.e. neurobehavioral changes; Maturity; Insight; Impulsivity and Decision making...
First, we briefly describe the neuroanatomy of frontal lobes and frontal-subcortical circuits and the behavioral symptoms associated with focal lesions within these circuits. We then examine neurological disorders of the frontal lobe, including vascular disorders, traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative...
Studies of people who have had frontal lobe damage through disease, brain injury, or disorder have aided us in developing categories of frontal lobe function based on where the brain damage or disease has occurred and the resultant change in behavior. More recently, neuroimaging studies of healthy...
The frontal lobe of the brain functions to control memory, judgement, speech, reasoning, emotions, personality, and motor movements, and frontal lobe dementia is a condition that occurs when the frontal lobe shrinks/atrophies. Symptoms of frontal lobe dementia usually occur around the age of 45,...
Frontal lobe epilepsy is a condition that is caused by abnormal electrical activity in the frontal lobe of the brain. Possible causes of this abnormal electrical activity include tumors, strokes, infections, trauma, and the presence of abnormal brain tissue. Symptoms of frontal lobe epilepsy include...
The most troubling cognitive symptoms are those that emerge with injury to the frontal lobe of the brain, the region directly behind the forehead and eye sockets, which is the most commonly injured region in car crashes and falls. Understanding traumatic brain injury: an introduction orbit of the...
Scarring in part of your brain from a past injury, including birth injuries Problems with blood vessels in your brain, or a strokeWhat are the signs and symptoms of a frontal lobe seizure?Head and eye movement to one side Trouble speaking, or yelling profanities Laughing for no reason Body...
Frontal Lobe: Disorders related to it As we have explained, the frontal lobe is involved in different processes (motors, cognitive, emotional and behavioral). This is why disorders due to injuries suffered to this area can vary from concussion symptoms to others more severe. ...
Symptoms of frontal lobe damage are disruptions at successive moments in this unfolding structure. Perseveration, inertia and impulsivity, along with focal impairments of mutism, agrammatism, the apraxias and motor aphasias, with misarticulation and “phonetic disintegration,” reflect stages in the ...