Frontal+Lobe+Personality

With unilateral, bilateral, or even seemingly mmild frontal lobe dysfunction patients may initially display an initial waxing and waning abnormalities including the "frontal lobe personality,' i.e. -Silliness -Childishness -Impulsiveness -FatuousJocularity -Lability -Personal untidiness and dirtiness -Poor Judgement -Grandiosity -Irritability -Irresponsibility -Laziness || -Hyperexcitability -Increased sexuality -Promiscuity -Extravagent money spending -Disregard of consequences -Tactlessness -Changes in hunger and appetite (usually with weight gain) -Manic excitement -Reduction in ability o produce original and imaginative thinking ||
 * -Tangentiality

-Behavior may become fragmented -Initiative, goal seeking, concern for consequences, planning skills, fantasy and imagination, and the general attitude toward the future may be lost -Range of interest may shrink -May be able to adapt to new situations or carry out complex, purposive, and goal-directed activities -Lack insight, judgement and common sense ||
 * **With significant frontal lobe pathology** ||
 * -Attentional functioning may be grossly comprised

-Little concern for appearance, their disabilities- -Show little to no interest in self-care or the manner in which they dress, or even if their clothes are soiled or inappropriate ||
 * **With massive trauma, stroke, neoplasm or surgical destruction (i.e.lobotomy) patients may show:** ||
 * -Reduction in activity and take a very long time to achieve very little

-Impulsiveness -Flightiness of ideas -May tire easily -Careless work habits -Desire to get things over and done with quickly -Tendency to want to lie in bed -Compulsive use of utensils and tools (writing an endless letter with mechanical repetition of a certain phrase or word) -Distractability -Perserveration ( repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture) || A curious mixture of obsessive-compulsiveness and passive-aggressiveness may be suggested by their behavior Damage to the frontal lobes, the right frontal and orbital frontal in particular, can create symptoms similar to a state of alcohol consumption
 * **Some may demonstrate** ||
 * -Restlessness