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30 August, 12:44

After surviving an ischemic stroke, a 79-year-old male has demonstrated significant changes in his emotional behavior, with his family noting that he now experiences wide mood swings with exaggerated responses of empathy, anger, and sadness to situations. His care team would most likely attribute these responses to ischemic changes in which of the following brain structures?

A) The man's occipital lobe

B) The client's temporal lobe in general and Wernicke area in particular

C) The man's parietal lobe

D) The components of the client's limbic system

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  1. 30 August, 16:43
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    Answer: Option (D)

    Explanation:

    The individual has shown significant alteration in his emotional attitude, he has been going through mood swings. Therefore his immediate response is empathy, anger and sadness. This when analyzed by his care team, they would most likely attribute such changes to ischemic alteration in elements of the individual's limbic system. Since the limbic system controls the rudimentary emotions such as fear, anger and pleasure.
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