NERVOUS SYSTEM SPECIAL SENSE
CEREBRUM
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Question
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Phineas Gage is a classic example of a traumatic brain injury causing a personality change. What area of his brain was damaged?
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temporal lobe
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frontal lobe
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parietal lobe
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occipital lobe
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Similarly, most popular accounts of Phineas Gage describe him as having undergone profound personality changes because of his injury. He is often reported as having permanently lost his inhibitions, so that he started to behave inappropriately in social situations.
Detailed explanation-2: -The left frontal lobe is involved in controlling language related movement, whereas the right frontal lobe plays a role in non-verbal abilities. Some researchers emphasize that this rule is not absolute and that with many people, both lobes are involved in nearly all behavior.
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