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| A railroad foreman who had a railroad rod shoot through his prefrontal cortex (and face) that survived and had drastic personality changes as a result. |
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| A procedure where ice picks are placed in the orbital sockets, up into the prefrontal cortex and wiggled around, destroying tissue, in order to treat a wide variety of mental illnesses |
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| Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex |
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| The highest cortical area responsible for motor planning, organization, and regulation, which is involved in the integration of sensory and memory information and the regulation of intellectual function and action, and is also involved in working memory. |
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| Frontal Convexity Syndrome |
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| A disorder characterized by apathy, indifference, occasional outbursts, stimulus-bound behavior, lacking of planning, psychomotor retardation, motor perseveration and programming deficits, poor word list generation, poor abstraction and categorization, and working memory deficits. |
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| Persistent use of a specific strategy to solve a problem, despite the fact that strategy is wrong or the rule of the task has changed |
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| Anterior Cingulated Cortex |
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| Part of cortex that subserves primarily executive functions related to the emotional control of visceral, skeletal, and endocrine outflow |
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| A syndrome characterized by the paucity of spontaneous movement and gesture, sparse verbal output, lower extremity weakness and loss of sensation, and incontinence. |
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| The cortex that is involved in sensory integration, affective value of reinforcers, decision making, expectation, taste, flavor, and regulates planning behavior associated with sensitivity to reward and punishment |
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| A syndrome characterized by disinhibited, impulsive behavior, inappropriate jocular affect, emotional lability, poor judgement and insight, sexual disinhibition, lack of concern for others, and distractibility. |
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| Antisocial Personality Disorder |
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| A disorder characterized by a failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, deceitfulness, impulsivity, failure to plan ahead, irritability, aggressiveness, reckless disregard for safety of self or others, consistent irresponsibility, lack of remorse, rationalization of crimes, superficial charm, and substance abuse. |
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