Assembly of the executive mind : evolutionary insights and a paradigm for brain health /

Hoffmann, Michael

Assembly of the executive mind : evolutionary insights and a paradigm for brain health / Michael W. Hoffmann, University of Florida. - First edition. - pages cm

Includes index.

The evolution of larger brains since the vertebrate-invertebrate divide -- The profound increase in primate gray matter growth -- Exponential white matter growth and major fiber tract systems assembly -- Cellular and molecular changes -- The core frontal systems -- Enhanced working memory -- Unraveling of brain networks in neurological conditions: nature's reductionism -- Neurological diseases as networktopathies with disconnection phenomena -- The sensitivity and vulnerability of the prefrontal cortex to changes in daily rhythms -- Implications for treatment and management: a network based approach -- Sense of self disorders -- Implications for you and society.

9781108456005 (pbk.)

2018037944


Brain.
Brain--Evolution--Philosophy.
Brain--Growth.
Neurosciences.

QP376 / .H665 2019

612.8/2
Catholic University of  Health and Allied Sciences - CUHAS
Directorate of ICT @ 2024