Executive Functions in Health and Disease

ISBN: 9780128036761 出版年：2017 页码：614 Academic Press_RM

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.Encompasses healthy executive functioning as well as dysfunctionIdentifies prefrontal cortex and other brain areas associated with executive functionsReviews methods and tools used in executive function researchExplores executive dysfunction in dementia, ADHD, PTSD, TBI, developmental and psychiatric disordersDiscusses executive function research expansion in social and affective neuroscience, neuroeconomics, aging and criminologyIncludes color neuroimages showing executive function brain activity