<p>When a person gets really stressed out and has a mental breakdown what happens to their frontal lobes?</p>

<p>I'm reminded of the clip from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103241/" rel="nofollow">"What about Bob?"</a> when Richard Dreyfuss has a breakdown when he learns that Bill Murray is marrying his sister, and then he ends up in the home basket weaving for a couple of months as an example of this...</p>

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2013-05-17T23:09:03.917Z
I'd suggest changing the question to something akin to "what are the neural correlates of a mental breakdown" or even "Is a mental breakdown detectable at the neural level?" The current question presupposes the lobe granularity is the right one, which we shouldn't accept without some cited research.
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What happens to a person's frontal lobes when they have a breakdown from stress?
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# What happens to a person's frontal lobes when they have a breakdown from stress?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-05-17)

When a person gets really stressed out and has a mental breakdown what happens to their frontal lobes?

I'm reminded of the clip from ["What about Bob?"](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103241/) when Richard Dreyfuss has a breakdown when he learns that Bill Murray is marrying his sister, and then he ends up in the home basket weaving for a couple of months as an example of this...

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> **username_1**: I'd suggest changing the question to something akin to "what are the neural correlates of a mental breakdown" or even "Is a mental breakdown detectable at the neural level?" The current question presupposes the lobe granularity is the right one, which we shouldn't accept without some cited research.  

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