Behavioral Flexibility and the Frontal Lobe

Behavioral Flexibility and the Frontal Lobe

Brain areas in the frontal lobe have been implicated in behavioral flexibility and control. The study by Johnston et al. in this issue of Neuron provides novel insights into the roles of the prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices in controlling behavior.

O5: Frontal Lobe Epilepsy

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Frontal behavioral inventory: diagnostic criteria for frontal lobe dementia.

OBJECTIVE To utilize the diagnostic criteria of frontal lobe dementia (FLD). METHODS We studied 12 patients with FLD diagnosed clinically, with radiological confirmation in 10 and autopsy confirmation in 2; sixteen patients with Alzheimer's disease matched for stage and severity to FLD and 11 patients with depressive dementia were used as control groups. A 24-item Frontal Behavioral Inventory...

Frontal Lobe Epilepsies: Neuropsychological and Behavioral Consequences in Children

Tumours of the Frontal Lobe.

General Considerations The difficulties in diagnosing frontal tumours have been well recognized, not only by all writers on the subject, but by all clinicians whether they have contributed to the written word or not. The reasons for this are not hard to find, and centre chiefly round the fact that large though the frontal lobes are they contain no structure whose destruction must necessarily ca...