[[File:Frontal lobe animation.gif|thumb|Damage to the frontal lobe of the brain, marked here in red, may result in utilization behavior.]]
'''Utilization behavior''' (UB) is a type of neurobehavioral disorder that involves patients grabbing objects in view and starting the 'appropriate' behavior associated with it at an 'inappropriate' time.<ref name=" Ishihara">Ishihara, K., Nishino, H., Maki, T., Kawamura, M., & Murayama, S. (2002). Utilization behavior as a white matter disconnection syndrome. Cortex, 38(3), 379-387.</ref> A Utilization behavior patientpatients hashave difficulty resisting the [[impulse]] to operate or manipulate objects which are in his/hertheir [[visual field]] and within reach.<ref>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 </ref> Characteristics of UB include unconsciously unintentional, unconscious actions triggered by the immediate environment. The unpreventable excessive behavior has been linked to [[lesions]] in the [[frontal lobe]]. UB has also been referred to as "bilateral magnetic apraxia" and "[[hypermetamorphosis]]."<ref name=" Eslinger">Eslinger, P. (2002). The Anatomic Basis Of Utilization: A Shift From Frontal-Parietal To Intra-Frontal Mechanisms. Division of Neurology, 1-4.</ref>
