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Diseases Affecting Frontal Lobes Traumatic brain injury – Gunshot wound – Closed head injury • Widespread stretching and shearing of fibers throughout. (Diffuse Axonal Injury / Traumatic Axonal Injury) • Orbito-frontal (and temporal) lobe more vulnerable • Shearing against underlying skull, SAH • Contusions and intracerebral hematomas Frontal Lobe seizures – Usually secondary to trauma – Difficult to diagnose: can be odd (laughter, crying, verbal automatism, complex gestures)
Diseases (2) Vascular disease – Common cause especially in elderly – ACA territory infarction • Damage to medial frontal area – MCA territory • Dorsolateral frontal lobe – ACom aneurysm rupture • Personality change, emotional disturbance • Confabulation - combination of damage to basal forebrain and frontal damage
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