If someone does things without caring what others think,does that mean they have frontal lobe damage?

Question

Can someone tell me what exactly what the functions of the frontal lobe are?

Answer 1

I know someone who does things without caring what others think, or what happens to others, or how they feel.  I think their frontal lobe has shut down.  

The functions of the frontal lobe are social interaction, long term memory, difference between good and bad, social responses and understanding consequences.

So, yes, if there is damage, they will have limited ability to care what others think.

Answer 2

It just means their Aholes

Answer 3

Frontal lobes: Well, they include three distinct regions: Primary motor region (just controls motor actions), Premotor regions and prefrontal region. And then there are subdevisions...

Frontal lobes are the most uniquely "human" part of our brains. They are invovled in planning, guidance and evalutation of behavour, plans long term goals, extrapolate forward in time, realise future consquences.

People with frontal lobe damage show a variety of behavoirs: i.e. when makeing an ommlette they may do all the right steps... in the wrong order. they may be unable to initiate or stop or change bhevaoir on their own (some OCD disorders involve problems - thought not damage - in the frontal lobe regions). They may have difficulties modulating behavoir: i.e. be socially innappropirate and can be either insensitive OR unduely swayed by their environment and people around them. There are also various working memory, attention and online processing problems.

Emotional problems and personality can also be linked to the frontal lobe. One of the most famous case studies of frontal lobe damage, Phineas Gage (who survived a rode going right through his skull) changed from being agreeable and persevering to being short tempered, selfish etc, which means when *some* people act without seeming to care what people think it could be linked to that (although as I said above, some are unduely swayed by what people seem to think)

However, just because some people with brain damage act this way does NOT mean all people who act this was have brain damage (or even brain problems) Not caring what other people think is more an empathy issue. You can have no empathy, and your frontal lobes can still work perfectly. The values they are working on in terms of evaluating behavoir are usually not moral, or at least not universal morals (like what other's think). So in answer to your first question: no, not usually. Like it or not, caring what other people think is partially a moral decision and morals are not universal.

Answer 4

Depends what kind of things you're talking about. And what if the 'damage' is actually the body's compensation for another issue inside the body, a 'problem' that, if 'fixed' would create more problems and that person would die or something. Who knows. you fix too many things? Compensation isn't damage.

On other hand: once was acquainted with a guy who'd gotten into a car accident and suffered brain damage that pretty much gave him a lobotomy. He truly no longer cared what anyone thought and partied, said crude things he wouldn't have said before, didn't really seem to have any feelings though...other than "on" and "off."  Is that the kind of person you're wondering about?

Answer 5

Lol... It means they either have confidents or faking confidence which is sorta the same thing.....