num_pages: 251
description: The Executive Brain is the first book to explore in popular scientific terms one of the most important and rapidly evolving topics in contemporary neuropsychology, the most "human" and recently evolved region of the brain--the frontal lobes. Crucial for all high-order functioning, it is onlyin humans that the frontal lobes are so highly developed. They hold the key to our judgment, our social and ethical behavior, our imagination, indeed, to our "soul." The author shows how the frontal lobes enable us to engage in complex mental processes, how vulnerable they are to injury, and howdevastating the effects of damage often are, leading to chaotic, disorganized, asocial, and even criminal behavior.Made up of fascinating case histories and anecdotes, Goldberg's book offers a panorama 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 the great Russian neuropsychologist A.R. Luria,Goldberg's escape from the Soviet Union, and his later interactions with patients and professionals around the world.
language: English
title: The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind
titlecomplete: The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind
genres: Psychology, Biology, Neuroscience, Science, Brain, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 255
publisher: Oxford University Press