What are the primary signs of damage to the temporal lobe, the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata?

1 Answer
Sep 14, 2017

Primarily disorientation, clumsiness and erratic breathing, heart rate or blood pressure.

Explanation:

Kolb & Wishaw (1990) have identified eight principle symptoms of temporal lobe damage: 1) disturbance of auditory sensation and perception, 2) disturbance of selective attention of auditory and visual input, 3) disorders of visual perception, 4) impaired organization and categorization of verbal material, 5) disturbance of language comprehension, 6) impaired long-term memory, 7) altered personality and affective behavior, 8) altered sexual behavior.
http://neuroskills.com/brain-injury/temporal-lobes.php

Cerebellar injury results in movements that are slow and uncoordinated. Individuals with cerebellar lesions tend to sway and stagger when walking.

Damage to the cerebellum can lead to: 1) loss of coordination of motor movement (asynergia), 2) the inability to judge distance and when to stop (dysmetria), 3) the inability to perform rapid alternating movements (adiadochokinesia), 4) movement tremors (intention tremor), 5) staggering, wide based walking (ataxic gait), 6) tendency toward falling, 7) weak muscles (hypotonia), 8) slurred speech (ataxic dysarthria), and 9) abnormal eye movements (nystagmus).
http://neuroskills.com/brain-injury/cerebellum.php

The medulla controls heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure. Abnormalities in respiration rate, heaccurt rate and blood pressure can be observed when damage occurs.
http://www.docscrewbanks.com/pdf/medulla-damage-effects
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/strokeaha/7/4/382.full.pdf