The Executive Brain - Elkhonon Goldberg
Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind
KORTE INHOUD
'The Executive Brain' is the first popular but rigorous book to explore the most "human" region of the brain, the frontal lobes.
Writing in a lively and accessible style, the author shows how the frontal lobes enable us to engage in complex mental processes, how they control our judgement and our social and ethical behaviour, how vulnerable they are to injury, and how devastating the effects of brain damage often are, leading to chaotic, disorganized, asocial, and even criminal behaviour.
Replete with fascinating case histories and anecdotes, Goldberg's book offers a panorama of state-of-the-art ideas and advances in cognitive neuro-science. It is also an intellectual memoir, filled with vignettes about the author's early training with Alexander Luria, his escape from the Soviet Union, and later interactions with patients and professionals around the world.
"... a brilliant exposition of the complex functions of the frontal lobes... a highly engaging and intimate memoir, a sort of intellectual autobiography, no ...
Writing in a lively and accessible style, the author shows how the frontal lobes enable us to engage in complex mental processes, how they control our judgement and our social and ethical behaviour, how vulnerable they are to injury, and how devastating the effects of brain damage often are, leading to chaotic, disorganized, asocial, and even criminal behaviour.
Replete with fascinating case histories and anecdotes, Goldberg's book offers a panorama of state-of-the-art ideas and advances in cognitive neuro-science. It is also an intellectual memoir, filled with vignettes about the author's early training with Alexander Luria, his escape from the Soviet Union, and later interactions with patients and professionals around the world.
"... a brilliant exposition of the complex functions of the frontal lobes... a highly engaging and intimate memoir, a sort of intellectual autobiography, no ...
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