Utilization behavior

Utilization behavior

Utilization behavior is a frontal lobe disorder in which the patient has difficulty resisting their impulse to operate or manipulate objects which are in their visual field and within reach. Unlike other impulse-control disorders, patients with this disorder confabulate reasons for their actions.

References:

*Blakemore, Wolpert, and Frith 2002 "Abnormalities in Action Awareness", "TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences" Vol.6 No.6 June 2002

*Lhermitte, F. (1983) 'usingisation behaviour' and its relation to lesions of the frontal lobes. "Brain" 106, 237–255

*Lhermitte, F. (1986) Human autonomy and the frontal lobes. Part II: Patient behavior in complex and social situations: the 'environmental dependency syndrome'. "Ann. Neurol." 19, 335–343


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