PSYC33H3 Chapter : disorders of executive functioning and self awareness
Document Summary
Executive functions can be defined as a collection of abilities that map. Control and direct of more basic lower level abilities. Deficit of personal agency, or awareness of the self as separate from the environment yet free to act on it . The region of the frontal lobes anterior to the motor strip. Occupying about 30 % of the human cortical mantle. Executive and self related functions have been defined in relation to patients with damage to the frontal lobes. Dramatic deficits with executive and prefrontal functions treated mainly as synonymous. Executive doctrine makes one vulnerable to shifting constructs depending on location damage within the frontal lobes. Prefrontal cortex reciprocally interconnected with the rest of the brain. Posterior, subcortical, and diffuse damage mimics damage through frontal systems disconnection. Supervisory attention system thought and action are controlled by processing mechanisms in routine versus novel situations. Action : controlled by schemas automated programs of achieving relevant goal states initiated by environmental triggers.
