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Human Frontal Lobe Function Revealed

The Human Frontal Lobes: Functions and Disorder. B.L. Miller and J.L. Cummings (Eds.). 1999. New York: The Guilford Press. 616 pp., $80.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2001

D.S. Knopman
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Abstract

All you ever wanted to know about the human frontal lobes seems to be contained in this multiauthored text, at least up to 1996 or 1997. The editors, Miller and Cummings, are acknowledged experts on the topic of human disorders of the frontal lobes. They have done a monumental job of collecting 53 authors and 34 chapters. The book is divided into five sections, frontal lobe neuroanatomy, frontal lobe neurochemistry and neurophysiology, frontal lobe neuropsychology, neurological diseases involving the frontal lobes, and psychiatric diseases involving the frontal lobes.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS
Copyright
© 2001 The International Neuropsychological Society

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