The patient presents to the emergency department (ED) after cutting off the tip of his middle finger while using a butcher’s knife. Of note, the patient’s vital signs are normal and the patient reports the pain to be a 0 out of 10. The nurse suspects the patient has a lesion in which lobe of the brain?
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