Full Description
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
EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS IN HEALTH
1. Prefrontal Executive Functions Predict and Preadapt
2. The Cellular Mechanisms of Executive Functions and working memory: Relevance to Mental Disorders
3. Gene expression in the Frontal Lobe
4. A Functional Network Perspective on the Role of the Frontal Lobes in Executive Cognition
5. Neural Network Models of Human Executive Function and Decision Making
6. Crucial Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Conscious Perception
7. Neurodevelopment of Executive Functions
8. Executive Functions and Neurocognitive Aging
9. Assessment of Executive Functions in Research
EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS IN DISEASE
10. Cognitive, Emotional and Behavioral Inflexibility and Perseveration in Neuropsychiatric Disease
11. Functional Neuroimaging of Deficits in Cognitive Control
12. Executive function in striatal disorders
13. Neurodevelopmental disorders and the frontal lobes
14. Executive control and emerging behavior in youth with Tourette's Syndrome
15. Inside the Triple-Decker: Tourette's Syndrome and Cerebral Hemispheres
16. Executive Dysfunction in Addiction
17. Seizures of the Frontal Lobes: Clinical Presentations and Diagnostic Considerations
18. Executive Functions after Traumatic Brain Injury: From Deficit to Recovery
19. Dementias and the Frontal Lobes
20. Executive Function in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
21. Executive Dysfunction in Medical Conditions
22. Assessment of Executive Functions in Clinical Settings
