Talk:Frontal lobe

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Regarding the frontal lobe and impaired judgement. Is there anyone out there that can explain how the frontal lobe is affected by Bipolar Disorder? Impaired judgement, namely risk taking behaviors, and excessive spending are common with bipolar disorder. Apparently these symptoms are governed by the frontal lobe. My question is why? Why and how is this portion of the brain affected by the disorder?

-S. Morales

Dear SM, That's an interesting question. I am not very familiar with the psychiatric literature on bipolar disorder, but there is a fairly nice wikipedia article on the cognitive process of decision making that you might find interesting. -S. Allison

SM, I just read a webpage that shows some significant correlations between right frontal damage and people going into manias. The page has a lot of useful information about the frontal lobe. http://brainmind.com/RightFrontalLobe.html -R.Yeager

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References

Can we get citations for the research findings described? WU03 22:13, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

broken link

The "brain place" link no longer exists

• The link has been removed. Thanks for the heads up! Semiconscious (talk · home) 03:37, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

American vs. British spelling

This article was started by User:SoCal and the next contributor was User:Emperorbma, both of whom used American English. According to the Wikipedia Manual of Style an article should be uniform in spelling. Since both "neuron" (American) is used instead of "neurone" (British) and "fiber" (American) used instead of "fibre" (British) in this article, User:64.107.141.20 was correct in changing the spelling from "behaviour" (British) to "behavior" (American). semiconscious (talk · home) 23:59, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

frontal lobe(s)?

We could say that the neutrality of this article is indeed in question. In the beginning of the article, it states that frontal lobes are the regions occupying the front of hemispheres, hemisphere implying to halves. the article seems to only describe the function of the left frontal obe, the one that controls logic, organization, impulse control and other linear tasks as such, but he forgets to include the the right frontal lobe, which is less used in modern society. The right frontal lobe is used for artistic expression, creativity in all forms, and holistic thinking. If there is an expert out there to add that in, the article would be more accurate. Perhaps I could be wrong, since the title of the article is Frontal Lobe. If that is the case, then two articles should be made for the left and right frontal lobes. It isn't a neccesity, but this is wikipedia, an encyclopedia set up for the cause of knowledge. The human brain is the most crucial tool for the purpose of wikipedia, knowledge, that is, so shouldn't we educate more people about it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.149.167.113 (talk • contribs)

I don't think that the laterality in the frontal lobes are understood that well. There isn't much credible evidence for the left frontal lobe controling logical thinking while the right frontal lobe is used in creativity. For almost any scientific paper implying that a function is lateralized to one side of the frontal lobe, you could find another that shows it on the other side. But if you could find credible articles that discuss laterality, please add it to this article. WU03 22:07, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

I was also looking for info on this. I've heard of treatment (possibly with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, or rTMS) to subdue brain activity. Subdue the right part and you become a maths whiz. Subdue the left and your imagination runs wild. Something like that. I've also heard that higher levels of activity on one side (the right?) are associated with negative feelings such as anxiety, while lower levels are associated with calmness - I think I heard that in a talk by Daniel Kahneman, where he said that the person with the lowest level of activity he'd ever seen in that region was a Tibetan Buddhist monk. My impression is that there are some quite strong research findings, though still in early days. Sorry I haven't given any links, no time to research just now... --Singkong2005 · talk 04:09, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Also the cytoarchitectonic equivalents (as in the Brodmann areas) would be very helpful to both exploring the brain regions through Wikipedia and to synthesize the contributions of both the right and left hemispheres... Stevenmitchell (talk) 19:40, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

memory storage

How does the frontal lobe store the encoded message in the temporal lobe? Are synapes created that trigger these memories or what?

The Frontal Lobe home to Consciousness

This statement is false. MRI's indicate that multiple areas of the brain are involved in any conscious thought, not just the frontal lobe. So until a credible link can be provided, that statement is being removed.

Introductory Paragraph

What is the pertinence of the introductory paragraph to the "function" section of the article? What do the parts of the brain discussed in the paragraph have to do with the "frontal lobes"?

this area won't fully develop until you are age 25

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And do use this as an excuse for bad behavior.--Dark paladin x 00:37, 18 April 2007 (UTC) dear sir how to rectify the damages caused by frontal lobes?

wow, 25?? well too late. I've already done extensive damage. for me at least. :( —Preceding unsigned comment added by Punkymonkey987 (talk • contribs) 01:20, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

I was 22. I don't understand how this injury that I had, isn't a disability? My brain wasn't even fully developed. Carolynsouleyrette22 (talk) 20:18, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Table of contents

Why does this page have a "__NOTOC__" tag? It seems like it could use one, αЯβιτЯαЯιŁΨθ ^(talk) 01:31, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Please go ahead and edit the article if you think you can improve it in any way. It obviously needs a lot of work to be a good article. Looie496 (talk) 02:14, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I added a table of contents. αЯβιτЯαЯιŁΨθ ^(talk) 01:57, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Translation into English

The following sentence in the intro needs to be translated into English:

"It is separated from the parietal lobe by the post-central gyrus primary motor cortex, which controls voluntary movements of specific body parts associated with the precentral gyrus posteriorly , inferiorly by lateral sulcus[slyvian] which separates it from the temporal lobe ,superiorly by the superior margin of the hemisphere and anteriorly by the frontal pole."

Is there someone who speaks Latin who can translate?--109.255.84.223 (talk) 13:30, 2 June 2010 (UTC) there is really no info get rid of the damn page got it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.87.66.12 (talk) 17:46, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

I rewrote that paragraph. There is no way of avoiding complexity when describing anatomy but hopefully I have made it a little more readable. Looie496 (talk) 18:20, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Animation

The rotating diagram of the brain is a great idea, but our perceptual system is designed to pay attention to movement, so the rotation is a constant source of distraction when reading the article text. For this reason, the user should be able to stop the rotation. This observation applies to animation inserts in all articles, including the articles on the four cerebral lobes: frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal. Fibbit (talk) 20:06, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Schizophrenia

In the opening paragraph "and to slightly increased risk for schizophrenia" Schizophrenia is a diagnosis based on someones behaviour , behaviour is not a disease. People make choices. Choices come from freewill, which is the frontal brain. February 12, 2014 Philip Hickey, PhD wrote of the genes in schizophrenia here http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/02/revitalizing-psychiatric-therapeutics/