After surviving an ischemic stroke, a 79-year-old male has demonstrated significant changes in his emotional behavior, with his family noting that he now experiences wide mood swings with exaggerated responses of empathy, anger, and sadness to situations
His care team would most likely attribute these responses to ischemic changes in which of the following brain structures?
A)
The man's occipital lobe
B)
The client's temporal lobe in general and Wernicke area in particular
C)
The man's parietal lobe
D)
The components of the client's limbic system
Ans:
D
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The neural structures that constitute the limbic system are primarily responsible for the regulation of emotion. Clinical studies have suggested that this area of the brain is important for mood states and has extensive connections with the limbic system. The occipital lobe interprets visual information, while language is the domain of the Wernicke area. The parietal lobe processes sensory input.
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