A client who has a parietal lobe injury is being evaluated for ...

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A client who has a parietal lobe injury is being evaluated for psychiatric rehabilitation needs. Of the aspects of functioning listed, which will the nurse identify as a focus of nursing intervention?
 
  1. Expression of emotion
  2. Detecting auditory stimuli
  3. Receiving visual images
  4. Processing associations

Question 2

A client with severe depression has sleep disturbance and anorexia. The nurse's planning will be enhanced by understanding that these symptoms may be attributed to dysfunction of the:
 
  1. Cerebellum
  2. Basal ganglia
  3. Hypothalamus
  4. Occipital lobe

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: 4
The parietal lobe is responsible for associating and processing sensory information that allows for functions such as following directions on a map, reading a clock, dressing self, keeping appoint-ments, and distinguishing right from left. 1. Emotional expression is associated with frontal lobe function. 2. Detecting auditory stimuli is a temporal lobe function. 3. Receiving visual images is related to occipital lobe function.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: 3
The hypothalamus is responsible for regulation of sleep-rest patterns, body temperature, and physical drives of hunger and sex. None of the other structures are responsible for modulating these functions.