BookMichael W. Hoffmann.
Summary: Over 90% of the brain is concerned with higher cortical functions, yet understanding of syndromes, functions, and measurements remains unchartered. This valuable handbook illuminates brain function, natural environment and human function, by delving into the interdisciplinary study. Multifaceted in its perspective, this book demonstrates bi-directionality of information exchange between disciplines. This book weaves around key case reports, series, control studies and cohort studies from cognitive neurology registries, to present the most current, practical research. Gaining appreciation for the fundamental formation and assembly of the supervisory area of the brain will inform an understanding of conditions and behavior for neuroscience professionals, clinical brain scientists and medical students in neuroscience, worldwide. Authored by a leading expert in cognitive neurology, this book guides the reader through the evolutionary, or neuro-archeological, aspects of how the frontal lobes and their circuitry were assembled, drawing key insights into form, function and treatment.
Contents:
The evolution of larger brains since the vertebrate-invertebrate divide
The profound increase in primate gray matter growth
Exponential white matter growth and major fiber tract systems assembly
Cellular and molecular changes
The core frontal systems
Enhanced working memory
Unraveling of brain networks in neurological conditions: nature's reductionism
Neurological diseases as networktopathies with disconnection phenomena
The sensitivity and vulnerability of the prefrontal cortex to changes in daily rhythms
Implications for treatment and management: a network based approach
Sense of self disorders
Implications for you and society.