Different parts of the brain control different things. For example, the frontal lobe controls Attention & motivation.
Below is a list of changes that may happen to the different parts of the brain after a brain injury.
Changes after frontal lobe damage :
• Difficulty sequencing
• Perseveration
• Difficulty with attention
• Personality changes
• Difficulty with problem solving
• Loss of verbal expression
• Loss of spontaneity
• Inflexible thinking
• Uncontrollable emotional, social and sexual behavioural changes
• Poor initiation of voluntary movements
Changes after occipital lobe damage :
• Vision defects
• Difficulty visually locating objects
• Difficulty identifying colours
• Hallucinations and visual distortions
• Word blindness
• Inability to recognise object movement
• Difficulty reading and writing
• Poor processing of visual information
Changes after temporal lobe damage :
• Difficulty understanding spoken words
• Disturbance of selective attention
• Short term memory loss
• Change in sexuality
• Persistent talking
• Increased aggressive behavior
• Difficulty identifying and categorizing objects
• Difficulty recognising faces and visually locating objects
Changes after parietal Lobe damage :
• Difficulty with academic skills
• Difficulty naming objects
• Right/left confusion
• Impaired processing of tactile senses (touch)
• Inability to focus visual attention
• Difficulty with eye-hand coordination
• Lack of awareness of body parts
• Impaired spatial orientation
Changes after brain stem damage :
• Difficulty swallowing food and fluid
• Difficulty with balance and movement
• Dizziness and nausea (vertigo)
• Impaired arousal and sleep regulation
• Impaired regulation of temperature, heart rate and respiration
Changes after cerebellum damage :
• Impaired gross and fine motor coordination
• Loss of the ability to walk
• Poor postural control
• Inability to make rapid movements
• Impaired control of eye movements
• Tremors and/or dizziness
• Slurred speech
