Frontal Lobes: Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry Personality, Emotion, Language, Speech, Aphasia, Depression, Mania, Attention, Inhibition, Movement, Motor Areas, Arousal, Catatonia, Schizophrenia, 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