Prefrontal Cortex
Functions
- Focus
- Forethought
- Judgment
- Impulse control
- Organization
- Planning
- Empathy
Problems
- Learning from mistakes
- Short attention span
- Acting without thinking
- Poor judgment
- Impulse control problems
- Disorganization
- Lack of planning
- Lack of empathy
- Trouble learning from experience
Temporal Lobes
Functions
- Hearing/listening
- Reading
- Interpreting social cues, including tone of voice
- Short- and long-term memory
- Recognizing objects by sight
- Mood stability
- Naming things
Problems
- Mishears communication
- Dyslexia
- Socially inappropriate behavior
- Trouble reading social cues
- Memory problems
- Word-finding problems
- Poor visual recognition
- Mood instability
- Abnormal sensory perceptions
- Anger, irritability, dark thoughts
Parietal Lobes
Functions
- Sense of direction
- Sensory perception
- Spatial processing
- Seeing motion
- Visual guidance, such as to grab objects
- Recognizing objects by touch
- Ability to know where you are in space
- Knowing right from left
- Reading and creating maps
Problems
- Impaired sense of direction
- Trouble dressing or assembling objects
- Left-right confusion
- Denial of problems or illness
- Impaired position sense
- Difficulty with math or writing
- Neglect or unawareness of what one sees
- Problems copying, drawing, or cutting
Occipital Lobes
Functions
- Vision
- Color perception
- Depth perception
- Deficits in vision
Problems
- Deficits in perception
- Visual hallucination
- Visual illusions
- Functional blindness
Cerebellum
Functions
- Motor coordination
- Thought coordination
- Impulse control
- Organization
- Speed of thought (like clock speed of computer)
Problems
- Coordination problems
- Slowed walking
- Slowed thinking
- Slowed speech
- Disorganization
- Impulsiveness
- Poor learning