The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes And The Civilized Mind

Elkhonon Goldberg

This is the first popular but rigorous book to explore the most "human" region of the brain, the frontal lobes. It shows how the frontal lobes enable us to engage in complex mental processes, how they control our judgment and our social and ethical behavior, how their injury often leads to chaotic, disorganized, asocial and even criminal behavior. Replete with fascinating case histories and anedotes, the book offers a panorama of of state-of-the-art ideas and advances in cognitive neuroscience. it is also an intellectual memoir, filled with vignettes about the author's early training with Alexandr Luria, his escape from the Soviet Union, and later ineractions with patients and professionals around the world.

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