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Index

Foreword 1. Introduction 2. An End and a Beginning: A Dedication 3. The Brain’s Chief Executive: The Frontal Lobes at a Glance The Many Faces of Leadership The Executive Lobe 4. Architecture of the Brain: A Primer The Microscopic View The Macroscopic View The Command Post and Its Connections 5. The Orchestra’s Front Row: The Cortex 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 Cortical Gradients in the Frontal Lobes Autonomy and Control in the Brain 6. Novelty, Routines, and Cerebral Hemispheres A False Start The New Paradigm The Evidence Lessons for Clinicians Agnosias and Hemispheres Executive Deficit and Hemispheres 7. The Conductor: A Closer Look at the Frontal Lobes Novelty and the Frontal Lobes Working Memory—or Working with Memory? Freedom of Choice, Ambiguity, and the Frontal Lobes Neuroeverything 8. Emotion and Cognition The Emotional Frontal Lobes Emotions, Novelty, and Cerebral Hemispheres 9. Different Lobes for Different Folks: Decision-Making Styles and the Frontal Lobes The Neuropsychology of Individual Differences Male and Female Cognitive Styles Frontal Lobes, Hemispheres, and Cognitive Styles Cognitive Styles and Brain Wiring Rebels in Small Proportion: Handedness and Novelty Seeking Executive Talents: The S Factor and the Theory of Mind 10. When the Leader Is Wounded

The Fragile Frontal Lobes Frontal Lobe Syndromes Drive and Newtonian Bodies: A Dorsolateral Case Study Plans and “Memories of the Future” Rigidity of Mind Mind Blindspot: Anosognosia

11. Social Maturity, Morality, Law, and the Frontal Lobes

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

12. Fateful Disconnections

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 Tics and Ticky Jokes The Cortex and the Striatum

13. “What Can You Do for Me?”

“Cognotropic” Drugs Aging Brain and Neuroplasticity Neuroplasticity in Action Jogging the Brain History of Cognitive Rehabilitation Brain Plasticity and Cognitive Exercise Cognitive Fitness: Beginning of a Trend

14. Breaking and Entering: Inside the Black Box

Ramblings of a Dilettante Machine in the Ghost Dopamine, Memory, and the Bicameral Brain Neural Networks and the Bicameral Brain: Models of Novelty–Routinization Dynamics Complicate to Simplify Further Complicate to Simplify: Front–Back, Neocortex–Hippocampi, Left–Right

15. Frontal Lobes and the Leadership Paradox

Autonomy and Control in Society Autonomy and Control in the Digital World

16. Epilogue

References and Notes Index