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[|Vehicular Brain Injury] [|Fall Victim Brain Injury] [|Phineas Gage]
 * After a man, Sam, was in a motor vehicle accident he has experienced difficult challenges in his life, and it's hard for him to get back to the routine of things. He had severe damage to both his frontal lobe and his temporal lobe. Shortly after the accident he notice he was having trouble thinking, he would become depressed at certain period of time, and his behavior had change. Doctors relate his injuries during the accident to the problems he has continued to struggle with since the incident. (3/1/2007)
 * A 56-year-old suffered frontal lobe damage after a painful fall. He was able to recover in less than a week, but his family members began to notice a change in his behavior and personality. Researchers then discovered that the frontal lobe can be divided into three distinct regions, in which damage could affect the body in different ways. Cognitive tests clearly show that damage to the frontal lobe could influence an individual's metal flexibility, sociability, sexual habits, creativity, as well as a number of other things. This would explain why the man's family notices a change in his behaviors. (2008)
 * Phineas Gage was a railroad construction worker that experienced severe brain damage when a tamping iron went through his left cheek bone and exited through the prefrontal cortex. He didn't seem to be significantly injured and he recovered fairly quickly, but researchers confirmed that damage to the prefrontal cortex could result in personality changes. One of the most noticeable changes was the loss of social inhibitions. Therefore, Phineas Gage had physically recovered, but he was left with the lack of appropriate behaviors, and he was unable to continue working as a railroad construction worker. (12/4/2006)

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[|Frontal Lobes and Human Essence]
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[|Damage to the Frontal Lobes Can Affect a Person's Ability to 'Stay on the Job'] [|Evidence Appears To Show How and Where Brain's Frontal Lobe Works]
 * A study that was done in 2001 has found that what sets us apart from primates is found in the frontal lobe, the right prefrontal cortex. The study was led at The Rotman Research Institute. Understanding the mental process, mentalizing, is the basis of our socialization and what makes us happy. Dr. Stuss tested patients with damage done to their frontal lobe. It shows that the frontal lobe is the most critical region for visual perspective, talking, and the inferior medial prefrontal region, for detectng deception. People's personalities have changed from damage to their lobe. What is important about the study is that it helps families, friends, and caregivers of the patient to appreciate and understand a very important reason of why it occurs. (2009)
 * A study that was done explains why brain injury patients have difficulty performing tasks consistantly, which is a neccessity for holding a job. Damage to the frontal lobe can impair your ability to perform consistantly. Numerous studies have confirmed that reduced consistency in patients with traumatic brain injury at all levels of severity. All frontal patient groups in the study had some inconsistency of performance. The results provide means for investigating why some patients seem to recover fully, yet are not able to hold down a job. This effects our everyday life because if we get brain damage to the frontal lobe we couldn't have the ability to 'stay on the job' and have consistent performance. (2009)
 * The study of stroke victims has made evidence that the frontal lobe of the human brain controls the decision-making process along a continuum from abstract to concrete, from front to back. The study was conducted in 2007 at the University of California-Berkeley. The study supports that abstract decisions about action take place in the front of the frontal lobe. It also supports that the back portion controls the capacity for concrete decisions and the progression from front to back forms a gradient from abstract to concrete. The study shows that the specific areas of the frontal lobe are needed for levels of decision. The frontal lobe also affects the internal control of behavior, the capacity to plan, reason, conduct higher-level thinking and connect knowledge to behavior. The study effects our decision making process, our planning and reasoning, and our connection from knowledge to behavior. (March 3, 2009)

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 * P- PLanning and judgement
 * O- Organizing
 * P- Personality
 * E- Emotions and behavior


 * M- Memory
 * A- Attention (selective)
 * S- Social behavior
 * S- Sexual behavior