Brian Levine - Mind and the Frontal Lobes. Cognition, Behavior, and Brain Imaging [2011][A]

Book Description
Publication Date: December 19, 2011
In the past 25 years, the frontal lobes have dominated human neuroscience research. Functional neuroimaging studies have revealed their importance to brain networks involved in nearly every aspect of mental and cognitive functioning. Studies of patients with focal brain lesions have expanded on early case study evidence of behavioral, emotional, and cognitive changes associated with frontal lobe brain damage. The role of frontal lobe function and dysfunction in human development (in both children and older adults), psychiatric disorders, the dementias, and other brain diseases has also received rapidly increasing attention. In this useful text, 14 leading frontal lobe researchers review and synthesize the current state of knowledge on frontal lobe function, including structural and functional brain imaging, brain network analysis, aging and dementia, traumatic brain injury, rehabilitation, attention, memory, and consciousness. The book therefore provides a state-of-the-art account of research in this exciting area, and also highlights a number of new findings by some of the world's top researchers.

Review
"With excellent state-of-the-science information, this is a much more concise and readable book than The Human Frontal Lobes, Miller and Cummings (Guilford Press, 2007). Additionally, it integrates multiple research methodologies and fields for a robust top-down view. This is a worthwhile, clinically relevant purchase." -- DOODY'S

About the Authors
Brian Levine is Senior Scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute and Professor of Psychology and Medicine (Neurology), University of Toronto.
Fergus I.M. Craik is a Senior Scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute and University Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Toronto.