What is frontal-lobe syndrome?

Frontal lobe symptom: .There are many diseases that have frontal lobe symptoms; however, there is no frontal lobe syndrome. The frontal lobes control what you can call your personality. People with frontal lobe lesions may have change in personality, compulsive behaviors, disinhibition (saying or doing inappropriate things), loss of sympathy/empathy for others and apathy to themselves. Overall change in behavior.

Deterioration in behaviour and personality in a previously normal individual.: Frontal lobe syndrome (FLS) reflects damage to the prefrontal regions of the frontal lobe. It is characterised by deterioration in behaviour and personality in a previously normal individual. Common Etiology: Head injury, Stroke, Infection, Neoplasm, Degenerative Disorders.

A broad term, not a diagnosis, but used to describe the damage of higher functioning processes of the brain to include motivation, planning, social behavior and language/speech production. Possible causes include trauma, neurodegenerative disease, infection and neoplasm to name a few. Requires neurology assessment and testing, and determining of the precise anatomical localizations