The Brain | Lobes, corpus callosum, and cerebellum
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The Relationship Between Prefrontal Cortex and Social Understanding
If we knock out certain parts of the brain, we can realize well if they've lost a particular type of behavior or changed it, it must have been a response. And we see that often with stroke patients, right? Stroke patients, whether they lose the ability to speak or move certain parts of their body gives us an indication of what lobe is affected. So people who have prefrontal dementia, okay, so this is neurons dying off in that prefrontal lobe, they've got problems with emotion and judgment. They're often quite careless. This is very common for frontal lobe dementia. There's no damage to that area. Now, you've heard of a gentleman in the 1800s called Fin
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