FRONTAL LOBE: voluntary movement controlling attention guide/control social behavior judgment problem-solving decision making motivation emotional control expressive language motor integration

Links and integrates all components of behavior at the highest level, Emotions and social adjustment and impulse control are also localized here.

Injury to parts of the frontal lobe may cause an inability to move part of the body or the whole side of the body. Speech ,may become halting, disorganized or be stopped except for single explosive words. Personality may change. Social rules of behavior may be disregarded. The executive functions of planning, abstract reasoning, impulse control, sustained attention and insight are all located here. The frontal lobe is highly susceptible to injury.

PARIETAL LOBE: tactile perception (touch) awareness of spatial relations academic skills (reading)

Is largely responsible for construction ability and language. Injury to the front parts of this lobe may cause someone to lose sensation on parts of the body. With an injury in this area one may become disoriented. Recall of long term memories may be mixed up in time or sequencing. A person may become easily lost or confuse left and right. They may have difficulty recognizing or naming what they see. Injury may also produce disorders in the ability to read, write or perform math calculations. This area also includes conscious sensation and voluntary motion.

TEMPORAL LOBE: memory receptive language comprehension of language musical awareness sequencing skills

Perceives and recognizes verbal material. It is among the most frequently injured parts of the brain during head injury. A person may have difficulty screening out distractions. Injury to the upper temporal area can cause someone to misunderstand what is said. The person may also make sounds like words which aren’t recognizable as words at all. They may also misunderstand body language. Emotional changes such as unexplained panic or unexpected tearfulness may be noted. Left temporal area includes production of speech, naming and verbal memory. The right temporal area includes musical abilities, foreign languages, visual memory and comprehension of the environment.

OCCIPITAL LOBE: visual perception visual input reading (perception and recognition of printed words)

Injury to this area usually results in "blindness" to part or all of the visual field. Usually people experience "holes" or "blind spots" in what they see. There may be problems picking things out of space or they may misperceive pictures or objects. In addition, the recognition of colors may be disturbed.

information from this document came from source: NeuroCare, Inc.