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<i>DESTRUCTIVE LESIONS (DOMINANT)</i>
<br/>1. Broca's aphasia: expressive aphasia
<br/>2. Problems with repetition: lesions of the arcuate fasciculus
<br/>3. Destruction of frontal eye field: impaired gaze to the contralateral side
<br/>4. Hemiparesis/hemiplegia
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<br/><i>DESTRUCTIVE LESIONS (BILATERAL)</i>
<br/>1. Intellectual impairment
<br/>2. Personality change
<br/>3. Disinhibition
<br/>4. Apathy
<br/>5. Abulia (loss of drive)
<br/>6. Urinary incontinence
<br/>7. Foster-Kennedy syndrome (olfactory groove region involvement): anosmia, ipsilateral optic atrophy &amp; contralateral papilloedema
<br/>8. Hemiparesis/hemiplegia


==Reference(s)==
R.M.H McMinn (1998). Last’s anatomy: regional and applied. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone. [https://amzn.to/3xyB8Wc Get it on Amazon.]
<br/>Drake, Richard L., et al. Gray's Anatomy for Students. Elsevier, 2023. [https://amzn.to/3KhTEtQ Get it on Amazon.]

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