Bookedited by Elkhonon Goldberg.
Summary: Executive Functions in Health and Disease provides a comprehensive review of both healthy and disordered executive function. It discusses what executive functions are, what parts of the brain are involved, what happens when they go awry in cases of dementia, ADHD, psychiatric disorders, traumatic injury, developmental disorders, cutting edge methods for studying executive functions and therapies for treating executive function disorders. It will appeal to neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, neuroscientists and researchers in cognitive psychology.
Contents:
Part I. Executive functions in health
Prefrontal executive functions predict and preadapt
The cellular mechanisms of executive functions and working memory: relevance to mental disorders
Gene expression in the frontal lobe
A functional network perspective on the role of the frontal lobes in executive cognition
Neural network models of human executive function and decision making
Crucial role of the prefrontal cortex in conscious perception
Neurodevelopment of the executive functions
Executive functions and neurocognitive aging
Assessment of executive functions in research
Part II. Executive functions in disease
Cognitive, emotional, and behavioral inflexibility and perseveration in neuropsychiatric illness
Functional neuroimaging of deficits in cognitive control
Executive function in striatal disorders
Neurodevelopmental disorders and the frontal lobes
Executive control and emerging behavior in youth with Tourette's syndrome
Inside the triple-decker: Tourette's syndrome and cerebral hemispheres
Executive dysfunction in addiction
Seizures of the frontal lobes: clinical presentations and diagnostic considerations
Executive functions after traumatic brain injury: from deficit to recovery
Dementias and the frontal lobes
Executive function in posttraumatic stress disorder
Executive dysfunction in medical conditions
Assessment of executive functions in clinical settings.