Mind and the frontal lobes: cognition, behavior, and brain imaging

The human frontal lobes are crucial to mental functioning, yet ongoing research is still uncovering their mechanisms. This text, written by leaders in frontal lobe research, provides a state-of-the-art update of patient and neuroimaging research. In the past 25 years, the frontal lobes have dominated human neuroscience research. Functional neuroimaging studies have revealed their importance to brain networks involved in nearly every aspect of mental and cognitive functioning. Studies of patients with focal brain lesions have expanded on early case study evidence of behavioral, emotional, and cognitive changes associated with frontal lobe brain damage. The role of frontal lobe function and dysfunction in human development (inboth children and older adults), psychiatric disorders, the dementias, and other brain diseases has also received rapidly increasing attention. In this useful text, 14 leading frontal lobe researchers review and synthesize the current state of knowledge on frontal lobe function, including structuraland functional brain imaging, brain network analysis, aging and dementia, traumatic brain injury, rehabilitation, attention, memory, and consciousness. Thebook therefore provides a state-of-the-art account of research in this exciting area, and also highlights a number of new findings by some of the world's top researchers. 1. Unifying Clinical, Experimental, and Neuroimaging Studies of the Human Frontal LobesB. Levine and F.I.M. Craik2. ConfabulationM.P. Alexander3. Reflections on ROBBIAT. Shallice4. Rostral Prefrontal Cortex: What Neuroimaging Can Learn from Human NeuropsychologyP.W. Burgess, Gil Gonen-Yaacovi, and Emmanuelle Volle5. Combining the Insights Derived from Lesion and fMRI Studies to Understand the Function of Prefrontal CortexM.D. D'Esposito and D. Badre6. Dynamic Communication and Connectivity in Frontal NetworksB. Voytek and R.T. Knight7. The Frontal Lobes and Mental State AttributionR.S. Rosenbaum and J.S. Rabin8. Monitoring and Alerting: Two Forests among the TreesI.H. Robertson9. Cognitive Rehabilitation in Old Age: The Totman InitiativeG. Winocur10. Effects of Aging on Memory and Attention: A frontal Lobe Problem?F.I.M. Craik11. The Aging Brain: An Alternate Perspective on Age-Related ChangesE. C. Leritz, R.E. McGlinchey, D.H. Salat, and W.P. Milberg12. Structural Brain Imaging and Cognitive AgingJ. Ramirez and S.E. Black13. The Effects of Focal and Diffuse Brain Injury on Behavior: Assessing "A Slice of Life" with Neuropsychology and Multimodal NeuroimagingB. Levine14. Does the Future Exist?E. Tulving15. The Necessary NarrativeT.W. PictonIndex

• ISBN: 978-0-19-979156-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 312
• Fecha Publicación: 05/01/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés