No CrossRef data available.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2020
Frontal lobe is the brain's way of modifying and interposing constraints on basic reflexive behaviors. It has a key role in higher mental functions such as motivation, planning, social behavior, and speech production. Frontal lobe syndrome reflects damage to the prefrontal regions of the frontal lobe. It is characterized by deterioration in behavior and personality in a previously normal individual. Cerebrovascular disease is one of major causes of frontal lobe syndrome.
After weaking up from comma caused by subarachnoidal haemmoraghia and embolisation of arteria communicans, 48 year old patient was radically changed. His wife reported “He is not the same man”. He became erretic, euphoric, noncritical, sexually desinhibed, impulsive and easy frustrabile even agressive. His circadiary rythm was disrupted, he was sleaping invariably. Computer tommograpy shown “multiple ischemic lesions bifrontoparietalis”. After treatment some of symptoms are set under control but some persisted.
There is no other part of the brain where lesions can cause such a wide variety of symptoms. These symptoms can roughly be divided into three main categories: cognitive, emotional and behavioural. Combination of presented symptoms can make diagnostic confusion. It may often be confounded with two psychiatric disorders: mania (or hypomania) and antisocial personality disorder.
Treatment of such patients is ambiguous and failures can be often expected.
To send this article to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about sending to your Kindle. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Google Drive account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
Comments
No Comments have been published for this article.