The Executive Brain
Subtitle: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: January 15, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195140224
First sentence: I began this book with a general audience in mind.
Description: "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 judgment and our social and ethical behavior, how vulnerable they are to injury, and how devastating the effects of brain damage often are, leading to chaotic, disorganized, asocial, and even criminal behavior.

Replete with 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 Alexandr Luria, his escape from the Soviet Union, and later interactions with patients and professionals around the world."--BOOK JACKET.