Frontal Lobes: Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry, Personality, Emotion, Language, Speech, Aphasia, Depression, Mania, Attention, Lobotomy, Evolution, Alien Hand, Free Will

Everything You Want to Know About the Frontal Lobes: Senior Executive of The Brain and Personality - Functional Overview - Functional Localization of Symptoms - The Frontal lobe Personality - Frontal Lobotomy - Loss of Inhibitions and Impulse Control - Uncontrolled Laughter and Mirth - Orbital Frontal Personality - Intellectual Deficits, Loss of Concern for Consequences - IQ Testing & Right vs Left Frontal Damage - Frontal Lobe Regulation of the Neocortex - Thalamic Control Over Neocortical Activity - Overview: Frontal Control Over Arousal - Right Frontal Lobe Control Over Arousal - Disinhibited Sexuality - Mania - Emotional & Prosodic Speech - Tangential, Pressure, & Circumlocutory Speech - Confabulation, Delusional & False Memories - Broca s Expressive Aphasia - Depression, Aphasia, & Apathy - Psychosis, and Blunted (Negative) Schizophrenia - Striatum: Emotion, Pleasure, Body Language, Schizophrenia - Movement & Motor Areas of the Frontal Lobes - Movement, Memory and Multi-modal Motor Neurons - The Corticospinal (Pyramidal) Tract - Left Frontal Developmental Dominance for Motor Functions - Supplementary Motor Ares: Functional Neuroanatomy - Secondary / Premotor Motor Areas - Primary Motor Areas - Paralysis - Exner s Writing Area - Agraphia - Frontal Eye Fields - Visual Scanning Deficits and Neglect - Free Will, - Alien Hand, - Evolution

Table of Contents

Part I. The Frontal Lobes: Personality, Emotion, Speech, Aphasia, Depression, Mania, Attention, Inhibition, Movement, Motor Areas, Arousal, Schizophrenia, Lobotomy -4

Part II. The Frontal Lobes, Free Will Loss of Will, Against the Will, Catatonia and the Alien Hand -121

Part III. Evolution of the Frontal Lobes: Language, Tool Making, Symbolic Thought: Cro-Magnon vs Neanderthal -159