Unilateral frontal lobectomy can produce strategy application disorder.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Following a 5 cm left frontal lobectomy for the removal of a mixed astrocytoma-oligodendroglioma, a 51 year old right handed man showed a marked dissociation between his performance on standard neuropsychological tests and his everyday behaviour. In contrast to his intact neuropsychological test performance, he was impaired on a test of "strategy application" which requires goal articulation, plan specification, self-monitoring, and evaluation of outcomes, as well as the establishment of mental "markers" to trigger specific behaviour. Strategy application disorder can therefore be produced by a unilateral circumscribed frontal lobe lesions.
Medical subject headings
- Astrocytoma
- Brain Damage, Chronic
- Brain Neoplasms
- Frontal Lobe
- Neurocognitive Disorders
- Oligodendroglioma
- Postoperative Complications
- Problem Solving
- Psychosurgery