06-29-2010, 02:02 PM
A 24-year-old man sustains a head injury in an automobile accident. His father relates that prior to the accident, the patient was
respectful, modest, controlled, and hard working. In the hospital, the patient is rude to the nurses and aides, loses his temper with the
slightest provocation, and refuses to wear a hospital gown or anything else. These behavioral changes after the accident indicate that
the area of the brain most likely to have been injured in this patient is the
(A) dorsolateral convexity of the frontal lobe
(B) hypothalamus
© orbitofrontal cortex
(D) reticular system
(E) amygdala
(F) nucleus basalis of Meynert
respectful, modest, controlled, and hard working. In the hospital, the patient is rude to the nurses and aides, loses his temper with the
slightest provocation, and refuses to wear a hospital gown or anything else. These behavioral changes after the accident indicate that
the area of the brain most likely to have been injured in this patient is the
(A) dorsolateral convexity of the frontal lobe
(B) hypothalamus
© orbitofrontal cortex
(D) reticular system
(E) amygdala
(F) nucleus basalis of Meynert