Jarl Risberg is Professor of Neuropsychology at Lund University and head of the Neuropsychology Section at the Departments of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Jordan Grafman is the Chief of the Cognitive Neuroscience Section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, USA.

• Foreword; Introduction; 1. Evolutionary aspects on the frontal lobes Jarl Risberg; 2. Organization of the principal pathways of prefrontal lateral, medial and orbitofrontal cortices in primates and implications for their collaborative interaction in executive function Helen Barbas; 3. Human prefrontal cortex: processes and representations Jordan Grafman; 4. A microcircuit model of prefrontal functions: ying and yang of reverberatory neurodynamics in cognition Xiao-Jing Wang; 5. Prefrontal cortex: typical and atypical development Maureen Dennis; 6. Case studies of focal pre-frontal lesions in man David Loring and Kimford Meador; 7. Left pre-frontal function and semantic organization during encoding and retrieval in healthy and psychiatric populations Daniel Ragland; 8. Clinical symptoms and neuropathology in organic dementing disorders affecting the frontal lobes Arne Brun and Lars Gustafson.

'The mysteries of the prefrontal cortex continue to fascinate new generations of psychiatrists, neurologists and cognitive neurologists, and this edited volume provides a welcome addition to the literature on this topic.' Psychological medicine 2007