Everything You Want to Know About the Frontal Lobes. Table of Contents Senior Executive of The Brain and Personality - 1 Functional Overview - 7 Functional Localization of Symptoms - 11 The Frontal lobe Personality - 15 Frontal Lobotomy - 17 Loss of Inhibitions and Impulse Control - 23 Uncontrolled Laughter and Mirth - 25 Orbital Frontal Personality - 25 Intellectual Deficits, Loss of Concern for Consequences - 26 IQ Testing & Right vs Left Frontal Damage - 29 Frontal Lobe Regulation of the Neocortex - 33 Thalamic Control Over Neocortical Activity - 34 Overview: Frontal Control Over Arousal - 36 Right Frontal Lobe Control Over Arousal - 38 Disinhibited Sexuality - 41 Mania - 43 Emotional & Prosodic Speech - 45 Tangential, Pressure, & Circumlocutory Speech - 48 Confabulation, Delusional & False Memories - 49 Broca’s Expressive Aphasia - 50 Depression, Aphasia, & Apathy - 55 Psychosis, and Blunted (Negative) Schizophrenia - 59 Striatum: Emotion, Pleasure, Body Language, Schizophrenia - 61 Movement & Motor Areas of the Frontal Lobes - 65 Movement, Memory and Multi-modal Motor Neurons - 71 The Corticospinal (Pyramidal) Tract - 72 Left Frontal Developmental Dominance for Motor Functions - 78 Supplementary Motor Ares: Functional Neuroanatomy - 79 Secondary / Premotor Motor Areas - 82 Primary Motor Areas - 83 Paralysis - 88 Exner’s Writing Area - 88 Agraphia - 89 Frontal Eye Fields - 90 Visual Scanning Deficits and Neglect - 93 Conclusion: The Frontal Lobes - 94