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.