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INTRODUCTION
The frontal lobe is the largest lobe of the brain associated with behavioral
aspects. Frontal lobe syndrome is a change in behavior, emotion and personality
that results from damage of the forebrain. The incidence that can lead to this
syndrome includes head traum, vascular syndrome, tumor, frontotemporal
dementia, and surgery due to aneurysm. Clinical manifestation arouse is highly
diverse but it is nucleated on the inability to regulate the behavior. The treatment
that we are doing today is to treat the underlying disease from the occurrence of
the frontal lobe syndrome, family counseling, and surgery when necessary.
CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE REVIEW
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mental
status
examinations
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conventional
reflex to hold
test go/no go
b. Rapid motor movement: rhytm tapping
c. Complex serial movement
Alternating pattern
2. Mental control :
a. trial making test
b. Ability to repeat the words, day, and month in reverse
1. influency and creativity with five point test
2. memory with range of digit dan word list learning
3. behavior and emotion; 12 items of neurobehavioral rating include:
emotional distress, depression, slow motion, blunted affect, mood
lability, disinhibition, inability to to cooperate, excessive
excitement, lack of attention, poor planning, inappropriate selfassessment.
2.1.5 Treatment
The treatment in a frontal lobe syndrome is to overcome the symptoms
arouse in accordance with the underlying unknown diseases, and then performed
conventional therapy or surgery. In addition to say that the treatment of this
condition is not specific, the authors say that we must consider counseling against
the patient's family, because their families who are now experiencing this
syndrome is not the their formerly families, in terms of nature, behavior, even
their daily lives have changed.(1,2,3,4,5)
CHAPTER III
CONCLUSION