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Executive Functions in Health and Disease

  • 1 Edición - 29 de junio de 2017
  • Última edición
  • Editor: Elkhonon Goldberg
  • Idioma: Inglés

Executive Functions in Health and Disease provides a comprehensive review of both healthy and disordered executive function. It discusses what executive functions are, what part… Leer más

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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.

Puntos claves

  • Encompasses healthy executive functioning as well as dysfunction
  • Identifies prefrontal cortex and other brain areas associated with executive functions
  • Reviews methods and tools used in executive function research
  • Explores executive dysfunction in dementia, ADHD, PTSD, TBI, developmental and psychiatric disorders
  • Discusses executive function research expansion in social and affective neuroscience, neuroeconomics, aging and criminology
  • Includes color neuroimages showing executive function brain activity

De interès para

Neuropsychologists, cognitive psychologists, clinical psychologists, neuroscientist, neurologists, psychiatrists

Índice

EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS IN HEALTH

1. Prefrontal Executive Functions Predict and Preadapt
Joaquin M. Fuster

2. The Cellular Mechanisms of Executive Functions and working memory: Relevance to Mental Disorders
Taber C. Lightbourne and Amy F. T. Arnsten

3. Gene expression in the Frontal Lobe
Zeljka Krsnik and Goran Sedmak

4. A Functional Network Perspective on the Role of the Frontal Lobes in Executive Cognition
Adam Hampshire

5. Neural Network Models of Human Executive Function and Decision Making
Daniel S. Levine

6. Crucial Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Conscious Perception
Seth Lew and Hakwan Lau

7. Neurodevelopment of Executive Functions
Layne Kalbfleisch

8. Executive Functions and Neurocognitive Aging
R. Nathan Spreng, Leena Shoemaker, and Gary R. Turner

9. Assessment of Executive Functions in Research
Yana Suchy, Madison A. Niermeyer, and Rosemary E. Ziemnik

EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS IN DISEASE

10. Cognitive, Emotional and Behavioral Inflexibility and Perseveration in Neuropsychiatric Disease
Daniel Weisholtz, John Sullivan, Aaron Nelson, Kirk Daffner, and David Silbersweig

11. Functional Neuroimaging of Deficits in Cognitive Control
Melissa-Ann Mackie and Jin Fan

12. Executive function in striatal disorders
Joao J. Cergueira and Nuno Sousa

13. Neurodevelopmental disorders and the frontal lobes
Masao Aihara

14. Executive control and emerging behavior in youth with Tourette’s Syndrome
Kjell T. Hovik

15. Inside the Triple-Decker: Tourette’s Syndrome and Cerebral Hemispheres
Kjell T. Hovik, Merete Oie, and Elkhonon Goldberg

16. Executive Dysfunction in Addiction
Antonio Verdejo-Garcia

17. Seizures of the Frontal Lobes: Clinical Presentations and Diagnostic Considerations
Sara Wildstein and Silvana Riggio

18. Executive Functions after Traumatic Brain Injury: From Deficit to Recovery
Irene Cristofori and Jordan Grafman

19. Dementias and the Frontal Lobes
Michal Harciarek, Emilia J. Sitek, and Anna Barczak

20. Executive Function in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Jennifer Newman and Charles Marmar

21. Executive Dysfunction in Medical Conditions
Michal Harciarek and Aleksandra Wojtowicz

22. Assessment of Executive Functions in Clinical Settings
Yana Suchy, Rosemary E. Ziemnik, and Madison A. Niermeyer

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 1
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 4 de julio de 2017
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre el editor

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Elkhonon Goldberg

Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D., is an author, scientist, educator, and clinician, internationally renowned for his clinical work, research, writings and teaching in neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience. He is a Clinical Professor of Neurology at New York University School of Medicine. Diplomate of The American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Neuropsychology and Director of Luria Neuroscience Institute. A student and close associate of the great neuropsychologist Alexandr Luria, Elkhonon Goldberg has continued and advanced his scientific and clinical tradition.
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Clinical Professor of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY USA

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