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Question:
Name two of the three
distinct regions of the
Frontal Lobe.
Answer:
 Primary motor
region
 Premotor region
 Prefrontal region
Question:
Where is the frontal lobe
located?
Answer:
Mention any of the below
 Deep to the Frontal
Bone of the skull.
 In front of the
central sulcus.
 Anterior portion of
the cerebral cortex.
Question:
Where is the Broca’s Area
located?
Answer:
Mention either:

Left frontal lobe.

Superior gyrus.
Question:
What are the functions of
the Broca’s Area?
Answer:
Controls (name any one of
the following):
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Facial neurons
Speech
comprehension
Language
comprehension.
Question:
What is Broca’s Aphasia?
Answer:

The inability to
speak and form
words due to
damage to the
Broca’s Area.
Or

Motor aphasia
Question:
Question:
What is the Precentral
Gyrus also known as?
Answer:

Primary Motor
Cortex
The Cortical Site (outer
portion) of the Primary
Motor Cortex is involved
with what?
Answer:

Controlling
movements of the
body.
Question:
What area of the brain are
frontal lobotomies carried
out in?
Answer:

Orbitofrontal cortex
Question:
Question:
Question:
What did doctors hope to
achieve by performing a
Frontal Lobe Lobotomy?
What were the undesired
results from Frontal Lobe
Lobotomies?
Who is this?
Answer:
Answer:
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Diminished rage
Decreased
aggression
Improve control of
emotional
responses
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Epilepsy
Poor emotional
responses
Uncontrolled and
repetitive actions
and gestures.
He was born in 1823 and died on
the 20th May 1860. The accident
happened on the 13th September
1848 when he was only 25 years
old. An iron bar propelled at high
speed straight through his skull
while he was working
construction on a railroad. By the
1st January 1849, he was leading
an apparently normal life. His
was the earliest documented
case of severe brain injury.
Answer:

Phineas Gage.
Question:
What were the consequences of
Phineas Gage’s injury?
Answer (Must refer to some of
the following):
 He suffered major
personality changes due to
injury.
 Due to his case it was
confirmed that damage to
the prefrontal cortex can
result in personality changes
while leaving other
neurological functions
intact.

His case provided evidence
that the frontal cortex is
involved in personality.
Question:
Question:
What lobe of the brain is
important for reasoning
and problem-solving?
Answer:

Frontal Lobe
Damage to the Frontal lobe
can cause what?
A. Difficulty with producing
the correct emotional
response.
B. Difficulty to organize and
complete sequenced
behavior.
C. Difficulty in retrieving
certain memories.
D. All of the above.
Answer:

D. All of the above.
Question:
Name an area of the
Prefrontal Region of the
brain.
Answer (Name any one of
the following):

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
Dorsolateral
Orbital
Medial
Question:
Brodmann Area 4 otherwise
known as?
Answer:
 Primary Motor
Cortex
Question:
Name one of the associative
processes performed in the
Frontal Lobe.
Answer:
 Thought
 Learning
 Memory
Question:
What is the prefrontal
cortex responsible for?
Answer:
 Personality
expression
 Planning of complex
cognitive behaviours
Question:
What are the premotor and
motor areas of the frontal
lobes responsible for?
Answer:
 Execution of
voluntary muscle
movement
Question:
The Frontal Lobe is involved in
several functions of the body.
Name three of these
functions.
Answer:
 Motor Functions
 Higher Order
Functions
 Planning
 Reasoning
 Judgment
 Impulse Control
 Memory
Question:
Which is the largest lobe in
the brain?
Answer:
 The frontal lobe.
Question:
What is the dorsolateral
frontal cortex concerned
with?
Answer (must mention two
of the following):
 Planning
 Strategy formation
 Executive functions
Question:
What do dorsolateral frontal
lesions tend to cause?
Answer (must mention three of
the following):
 Problems with apathy
 Personality changes
 Lack of ability to plan or to
sequence actions or tasks
 Poor working memory for
verbal information
(damage to left
hemisphere)
 Poor spatial information
(damage to right
hemisphere)
Question:
Where is the centre for
expression of language?
Answer:
 The frontal
operculum
Question:
What
damage is caused
Question:
with
anisexclusively
Which
the largestright
lobe in
opercular
the brain?lesion?
Answer:
 Expressive
The frontal lobe.
aprosodia.
Question:
What do basal forebrain
lesions cause?
Answer (Must mention
both):
 Amnesia
 False memory
(confabulation)
Question:
People who are said to have
an “orbital personality”
have what kind of
disorders?
Answer (Mention either of
the following):
 Sociopathic
disorders
 Pseudopsychopathic
disorders