Good reminder

Functions of the brain's frontal lobes (cerebral cortex):

-How we know what we are doing within our environment (consciousness).
-How we initiate activity in response to our environment.
-Judgments we make about what occurs in our daily activities.
-Controls our emotional response.
-Controls our expressive language.
-Assigns meaning to the words we choose.
-Involves word associations.
-Memory for habits and motor activities.


Possible problems related to injury of the frontal lobes:

-Loss of simple movement of various body parts.
-Inability to plan a sequence of complex movements needed to complete multi-stepped tasks, such as making coffee.
-Loss of spontaneity in interacting with others.
-Loss of flexibility in thinking.
-Persistence of a single thought.
-Inability to focus on task.
-Mood changes.
-Changes in social behavior.
-Changes in personality.
-Difficulty with problem solving.
-Inability to express language.

Sounds pretty familiar, huh? Just a reminder that dad has been a victim of brain injury to his right frontal lobe and has been since this tumor started invading his brain....which (considering the type of tumor it is) most likely was decades before we even first learned of it.