A patient comes to you with complaints of intense headaches on the left side of his head just behind his eye. He also tells you that lately he has had trouble concentrating and feels unusually angry and confused. You ordered a variety of diagnostic tests and have the following results: Patient’s speech, hearing, and vision appear normal. Patient’s ability to perform memory tasks is less than expected for his age. Patient’s ability to control movement and balance appear normal. Due to these symptoms, you suspect an issue with his central nervous system. What additional abilities would be affected by this part of the brain? *
10 points
Behavior and personality, such as planning, initiated movements, social and emotional processing, and attention.
Sensing touch, spatial processing, language, and memory.
Visual perception and some forms of visual short-term memory.
Processing smell and sound, and the ability to recognize and understand words and language.