The New Executive Brain

Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D. is Clinical Professor of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine. He was a student of the great Russian neuropsychologist Alexander Luria, and is the author of The Executive Brain and The Wisdom Paradox.

• THE MANY FACES OF LEADERSHIP; THE EXECUTIVE LOBE; THE MICROSCOPIC VIEW; THE MACROSCOPIC VIEW; THE COMMAND POST AND ITS CONNECTIONS; SOUNDS AND PLAYERS; NOAH'S PREDICAMENT AND THE LANDSCAPES OF THE BRAIN; NEUROPAGANISM: MODULE MADNESS; COGNITIVE GRADIENTS AND COGNITIVE HIERARCHIES; A THING IS A THING; A WORD TO A THING; AUTONOMY AND CONTROL IN THE BRAIN; AGNOSIAS AND HEMISPHERES; EXECUTIVE DEFICIT AND HEMISPHERES; NOVELTY AND THE FRONTAL LOBES; WORKING MEMORY-OR WORKING WITH MEMORY?; FREEDOM OF CHOICE, AMBIGUITY, AND THE FRONTAL LOBES; NEUROEVERYTHING; THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; MALE AND FEMALE COGNITIVE STYLES; FRONTAL LOBES, HEMISPHERES, AND COGNITIVE STYLES; COGNITIVE STYLES AND BRAIN WRITING; REBELS IN SMALL PROPORTION: HANDEDNESS AND NOVELTY SEEKING; EXECUTIVE TALENTS: THE S FACTOR AND THE THEORY OF MIND; THE FRAGILE FRONTAL LOBES; FRONTAL LOBE SYNDROMES; DRIVE AND NEWTONIAN BODIES: A DORSOLATERAL CASE STUDY; PLANS AND THE "MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE"; RIGIDITY OF MIND; MIND BLINDSPOT: ANOSOGNOSIA; ORBITOFRONTAL "PSEUDOPSYCHOPATHIC" SYNDROME AND THE LOSS OF SELF-CONTROL; SOCIAL MATURITY AND THE FRONTAL LOBES; BIOLOGICAL MATURATION AND SOCIAL MATURITY: A HISTORICAL PUZZLE; FRONTAL LOBE DAMAGE AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; THE HAPLESS ROBBER; FRONTAL LOBE DAMAGE AND THE PUBLIC BLINDSPOT; THE FALLEN HORSEMAN: A CASE STUDY; SCHIZOPHRENIA: A CONNECTION THAT WAS NEVER MADE; HEAD TRAUMA: A BROKEN CONNECTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER: A FRAGILE CONNECTION; ADHD CONQUERED: HOW TOBY FROM DOWN UNDER RECLAIMED HIMSELF; JERKY TIES AND TICKY JOKES; THE CORTEX AND THE STRIATUM; "COGNOTROPIC" DRUGS; JOGGING THE BRAIN; HISTORY OF COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; BRAIN PLASTICITY AND COGNITIVE EXERCISE; COGNITIVE FITNESS: BEGINNING OF A TREND; BEGINNINGS OF A PROGRAM; AUTONOMY AND CONTROL IN THE BRAIN; AUTONOMY AND CONTROL IN SOCIETY; AUTONOMY AND CONTROL IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

It is only nowthat we are beginning to get the full measure of complexity [of the living body], to see how nature and culture interact, and how brain and mind produce each other. There are a handful, a small handful, of remarkable books which address these central problems with great forcethose of Gerald Edelman and Antonio Damasio at once come to mindand to this select number, Elkhonon Goldbergs book, The Executive Brain, should surely be added.