Frontal Lobe Patients

Patients with frontal lobe lesions have several difficulties. The are impaired in planning upcoming events out of several possibilities. They are ignorant of external cues where the stick to a current task. They also have difficulties in tracing were they went and for instance which purchases they made in stores (Kolb and Whishaw, 2008). For the accomplishment of these tasks they do need good temporal organization of their behavior. These tasks are functions of the frontal lobe. These kind of tasks, such as planning are now popular under the name "executive functions".