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A sudden change in personality and behavior in a dementia patient is called frontal lobe dementia. Frontal lobe dementia is a group of disorders that are caused by cell degeneration.
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Can trauma of the brain cause frontal lobe dementia?
Injury to the frontal lobe, usually confined to specific regions within the lobe itself (though these vary widely across patients/individuals) can cause frontal lobe dementia.
What is the prognosis for someone with frontal lobe dementia?
Frontal lobe dementia is a degenerative condition of the front part of the brain. There are several different types of damaged nerve cells found in the brain of a patient with frontal lobe dementia and two of these contain abnormal levels of tau proteins.
What are the symptoms of frontal lobe dementia?
The symptoms of frontal lobe dementia are depending on its kind. Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia or bvFTD, Primary progressive aphasia or PPA, and FTD movement disorders are the three types of frontal lobe dementia. The first type (bvFTD) sysmtoms shows in behavior like depression, the second one (PPA) symptoms includes poor language skills development and the third one (FTD) symptoms includes poor functions of voluntary muscles.
What is left frontal lobe damage?
This indicates damage (either from trauma,dementia conditions, vascular causes or tumors, and more rarely from infections) to the left portion of the frontal lobe (area) of the brain.
Section of the brain that makes decisions?
The frontal lobe is used in decision making.
What lobe of the cerebrum has a seat of intelligence and abstract reasoning?
Frontal lobe
What is the description for frontotemporal dementia?
Frontotemporal dementia is a form of dementia that involves the degeneration of the frontal lobe of the brain. It is similar to to Alzheimer's disease and is also known as Pick's disease. The is a disease with no known cure.
Four main area of the brain?
frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, and the temporal lobe
Broca's area is located in the?
Left temporal.
Central sulcus separates which lobes?
it seperates the parietal from the frontal lobe, also it seperates the primary motor lobe from the primary somatosensory cortex.
What is the medical term meaning surgical removal of the frontal lobe?
Frontal lobotomy is surgical incision into the frontal lobe of the brain.
Which lobe of the cortex was damaged when Phineas Gage had his accident?
the frontal lobe of cortex
