Parts of the functions Damage

brain
Frontal lobe 1. Creativity 1. Difficulty in sequencing
2. Emotions 2. Decrease attention
3. Inhibition 3. Decrease initiation in
4. Attention voluntary movement
5. Muscle movements 4. Poor judgment- not able to
6. Eye movement make decisions
7. Judgment 5. Poor motivation
6. Damage in broca's area –
difficulty in speaking and
writing.
7. Abnormal eye movement
Partial lobe 1. Sense of touch (tactile 1. Difficulty in making sense of
sensation) sensory message coming to
2. Some language and the brain.
reading functions 2. Inability to recognise touch
Response to internal sensation.
stimuli 3. Difficulty naming things
3. Sensory combination
Occipital lobe 1. Vision 1. Partial or complete
2. Color discrimination blindness
3. Motion perception "The person loses conscious
awareness of visual stimuli,
there's no damage in the
sight structure but the
person can't see"
2. Not able to identify colors
3. Not able to recognise words
4. Problems in reading and
writing.

Temporal lobe 1. Auditory memories 1. Possible changes in

2. Hearing memories
3. Speech 2. Problem in understanding
spoken words
3. Left damage : such as
Wernicke's area-inability to
understand what's being
 said
4. Right damage: inability to
recognise music

Cerebellum 1. Balance 1. Lack of coordination of

2. Posture motor movement
2. Inability to form rabid
alternating movements
3. Staggering
4. Slurred speech
Pons 1. Help with the 1. Injury to the Pons is capable
cerebellum in of producing coma, causing
posture, and sleep disturbances, sensory
movement disturbances, lack of
2. Interprets pupillary response,
information that is dysfunction in levels of
used in sensory attention and increases in
analysis levels of stress and anxiety.
3. Creates level of
consciousness
necessary for sleep
Medulla 1. Breathing 1. Difficulty swallowing
2. Blood pressure 2. Disturbances of taste
3. Heart beats 3. In ability to rotate the head
4. Digestion

Mid brain 1. Regulate body

movement, vision, and 1. Problems with eye
hearing movements, vision, hearing,
motor symptoms

Corpus 1. Communication between 1. Information processed in one

callosum right, left sides of the hemisphere can't travel to the
brain. other one.
2. Lack of coordination between
the left, and right brain.
Hypothalamus 1. It controls the internal 1. Headache
thermostat of the body, 2. Depressed mode
hunger, thirst, the fight or 3. Body temperature problems
flight response, digest 4. Fatigue
response and mating 5. Mental slowing
behaviours. 6. Excess thirst
2. controls the pituitary 7. Obesity
gland 8. Emotional problems
3. helps regulate:
 Body temperature
 Childbirth
 Emotions
 Growth
 Milk production
 Salt and water
balance
 Sleep
 Weight and appetite

Thalamus 1. It receives sensory signals 1. It directs the sensory

from all of the sensory information to the different
systems except for the parts and lobes of the cortex.
olfactory system. 2. All sensory information would
2. It processes the signals not be processed and sensory
and sends them along to confusion would result.
their associated area of
the cerebral cortex.
Hippocampus  It is critical for the  Results in alzahimar
formation of new
memories and spatial
orientation.