L Godbout1, M C Grenier, C M J Braun, S Gagnon. 1. Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Département de psychologie, Laboratoire de neuropsychologie expérimentale et comparée, Québec, Canada.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Executive function in activities of daily living (ADL) were investigated in 10 patients with excised frontal lobe tumours. METHOD: The patients with frontal lesions were compared to 10 normal controls with a neuropsychological test battery, a script generation task and a realistic implementation of complex multi-task ADL (planning and preparing a meal). RESULTS: The patients manifested numerous basic executive deficits on the paper-pencil tests, were unimpaired on the script generation task despite an aberrant semantic structure and manifested marked anomalies in the meal preparation task. CONCLUSION: Frontal lobe deficits in lengthy complex multi-task ADL can be explained by impairment of several executive functions, generalized slowness of performance and paucity of behaviour.
OBJECTIVE: Executive function in activities of daily living (ADL) were investigated in 10 patients with excised frontal lobe tumours. METHOD: The patients with frontal lesions were compared to 10 normal controls with a neuropsychological test battery, a script generation task and a realistic implementation of complex multi-task ADL (planning and preparing a meal). RESULTS: The patients manifested numerous basic executive deficits on the paper-pencil tests, were unimpaired on the script generation task despite an aberrant semantic structure and manifested marked anomalies in the meal preparation task. CONCLUSION:Frontal lobe deficits in lengthy complex multi-task ADL can be explained by impairment of several executive functions, generalized slowness of performance and paucity of behaviour.
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