Description
Executive Functions in Health and Disease supplies a comprehensive review of both healthy and disordered executive serve as. It discusses what executive functions are, what parts of the brain are involved, what happens after they go awry in cases of dementia, ADHD, psychiatric disorders, traumatic injury, developmental disorders, innovative strategies for finding out executive functions and therapies for treating executive serve as disorders. It’s going to appeal to neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, neuroscientists and researchers in cognitive psychology.
- Encompasses healthy executive functioning in addition to dysfunction
- Identifies prefrontal cortex and other brain areas related to executive functions
- Reviews strategies and tools utilized in executive serve as research
- Explores executive dysfunction in dementia, ADHD, PTSD, TBI, developmental and psychiatric disorders
- Discusses executive serve as research expansion in social and affective neuroscience, neuroeconomics, aging and criminology
- Includes color neuroimages showing executive serve as brain activity