A nurse assesses a patient with a head injury who has slowing intellectual functioning, personality changes, and emotional lability. The nurse correlates these findings with which area of the brain?
A) Frontal lobe
B) Parietal lobe
C) Thalamus
D) Temporal lobe

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The frontal lobe controls intellectual function, awareness of self, personality, and autonomic responses related to emotion. The parietal lobe receives sensory input such as position sense, touch, shape, and texture of objects. The thalamus is a relay and integration station from the spinal cord to the cerebral cortex and other parts of the brain. The temporal lobe contains the primary auditory cortex. It also interprets auditory, visual, and somatic sensory inputs that are stored in thought and memory.

A Nurse Assesses a Patient with a Head Injury Who