The frontal lobes and their functional properties are recognized as crucial to establishing our identity as autonomous human beings. This book provides a broad introductory overview of this unique brain region. In an accessible and readable style it covers the evolutionary significance of the fronta
The Frontal Lobes : Development, Function and Pathology
โ Scribed by Risberg, Jarl; Grafman, Jordan
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 241
- Series
- Series for the International Neuropsychological Society
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Provides an introductory overview of normal as well as disturbed frontal lobe functions.
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โฆ Table of Contents
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Introduction
1 Evolutionary aspects on the frontal lobes
2 Organization of the principal pathways of prefrontal lateral, medial, and orbitofrontal cortices in primates and implications ...
3 Human prefrontal cortex: processes and representations
4 A microcircuit model of prefrontal functions: Ying and Yang of reverberatory neurodynamics in cognition
5 Prefrontal cortex: typical and atypical development
6 Case studies of focal prefrontal lesions in Man. 7 Left prefrontal function and semantic organization during encoding and retrieval in healthy and psychiatric populations8 Clinical symptoms and neuropathology in organic dementing disorders affecting the frontal lobes
Index.
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