[The relationship between the side of the lesion and the psychopathology of focal lesions of the frontal lobes].
The author studied 36 patients with benign tumors, located in one of the frontal lobes: in 20 cases in the left and in 16 cases in the right lobe. In tumors of the left lobe there were disorders in the motor and initiative side of speech, general inhibition, a decline in the level of generalizing, a prevalence of memory disorders, rather than attention, inertia of mental processes with a preservation of a sense of being ill. Tumors of the right frontal lobe were characterized by an insufficient insight to the illness, euphoria, an absence of a critical understanding of the environment, a prevalence of attention disorders over memory disturbances, a narrowing of the volume of simultaneously perceived information and a tendency towards a confabulatory addition to fragmentarily perceived images.
D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005625:Frontal Lobe; D006801:Humans; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D011599:Psychopathology; D012392:Rorschach Test; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000209:etiology
Psikhopatologiia ochagovogo proazheniia lobnykh doleĭ v zavisimosti ot storony porazheniia