Frontal Lobes (eBook, PDF)

Development, Function and Pathology
Redaktion: Risberg, Jarl

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The frontal lobes and their functional properties are recognised 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 frontal lobes, typical and atypical development pathways, the role played in normal cognition, memory and emotion, and in damaged states, resulting in a range of neurological syndromes and psychiatric disturbances. The coverage integrates current theoretical knowledge with observations of both normal and disturbed behaviour across the lifespan. The result is an easy to read review of this fascinating and involved field suitable for graduate students in neuropsychology and psychology, clinicians from the fields of neurology, neurosurgery or psychiatry, and researchers engaged in neuroscientific investigations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511345791
• Artikelnr.: 38204214

Autorenporträt

Jarl Risberg is Professor of Neuropsychology at Lund University and head of the Neuropsychology Section at the Departments of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Jordan Grafman is the Chief of the Cognitive Neuroscience Section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Introduction; 1. Evolutionary aspects on the frontal lobes Jarl
Risberg; 2. Organization of the principal pathways of prefrontal lateral,
medial and orbitofrontal cortices in primates and implications for their
collaborative interaction in executive function Helen Barbas; 3. Human
prefrontal cortex: processes and representations Jordan Grafman; 4. A
microcircuit model of prefrontal functions: ying and yang of reverberatory
neurodynamics in cognition Xiao-Jing Wang; 5. Prefrontal cortex: typical
and atypical development Maureen Dennis; 6. Case studies of focal
pre-frontal lesions in man David Loring and Kimford Meador; 7. Left
pre-frontal function and semantic organization during encoding and
retrieval in healthy and psychiatric populations Daniel Ragland; 8.
Clinical symptoms and neuropathology in organic dementing disorders
affecting the frontal lobes Arne Brun and Lars Gustafson.