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questions with 100% correct answers
What functions are associated with the frontal lobe? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Voluntary movement, abstract thinking, planning, memory, and judgement
What are the specialized areas within the frontal lobe? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Motor, pre-motor, pre-frontal, and Broca areas
What is the function of the primary motor cortex? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔aka motor homunculus; controls voluntary movement
Lesion = motor deficits/paralysis on contralateral side
What is the function of the pre-motor cortex? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Controls trunk and proximal limb muscles
Responsible for "body part ownership"
Lesion = unilateral neglect
What is the function of the supplemental motor cortex? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Motor planning region - directs activity of primary motor
cortex
Lesion = apraxia
, What is the function of Broca's area? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Controls
expressive speech
Lesion = expressive aphasia
What is the function of the orbitofrontal cortex? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Responsible for impulse control, inhibition of inappropriate behavior, and
carrying out plans
Lesion = "prefrontal syndrome"
What is the function of the dorsolateral frontal cortex? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Responsible for analytical thinking, problem solving, thinking, attention
and focus
Lesion = Disorganization and distractibility
What is the function of the ventromedial frontal cortex? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Part of the limbic system
Responsible for connecting emotions/thoughts and attaches emotional
meaning to life experiences
Lesion = apathetic/flat affect
What is the function of the anterior cingulate gyrus? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Part of the limbic system
Responsible for integrating thought, motivation, attention, and behavior
Lesion = anxiety (overactive) or apathy (underactive)
questions with 100% correct answers
What functions are associated with the frontal lobe? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Voluntary movement, abstract thinking, planning, memory, and judgement
What are the specialized areas within the frontal lobe? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Motor, pre-motor, pre-frontal, and Broca areas
What is the function of the primary motor cortex? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔aka motor homunculus; controls voluntary movement
Lesion = motor deficits/paralysis on contralateral side
What is the function of the pre-motor cortex? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Controls trunk and proximal limb muscles
Responsible for "body part ownership"
Lesion = unilateral neglect
What is the function of the supplemental motor cortex? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Motor planning region - directs activity of primary motor
cortex
Lesion = apraxia
, What is the function of Broca's area? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Controls
expressive speech
Lesion = expressive aphasia
What is the function of the orbitofrontal cortex? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Responsible for impulse control, inhibition of inappropriate behavior, and
carrying out plans
Lesion = "prefrontal syndrome"
What is the function of the dorsolateral frontal cortex? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Responsible for analytical thinking, problem solving, thinking, attention
and focus
Lesion = Disorganization and distractibility
What is the function of the ventromedial frontal cortex? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Part of the limbic system
Responsible for connecting emotions/thoughts and attaches emotional
meaning to life experiences
Lesion = apathetic/flat affect
What is the function of the anterior cingulate gyrus? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Part of the limbic system
Responsible for integrating thought, motivation, attention, and behavior
Lesion = anxiety (overactive) or apathy (underactive)
