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Summary: Fronting up. A full frontal approach to disordered action
Review: This a well organized book. The authors and editor have co-operatively achieved their scholarly objective with executive precision. The resultant book salutes their frontal lobe health more meaningfully than would a normal magnetic resonance image. The placing of the use of all cognitive functions including "abstraction" at the back of the brain and the final conversion to realtime action including language and song and meaning is what this learned book is about. (Ch 2) magically describes the normally behaving symptomatic schizophrenic.(Ch 3) advances our understanding to that of circuits - frontal basal ganglia and thalamic circuits - being responsible for executive action. There are six of these. The outide and inside halves have different actions and orbital damage produces pseudopsychopathy (detailed in Ch 4)laterally but anhedonia medially. Mentorship comes alive when Luria's pupil Goldberg (Ch 6) points out the anatomical and functional assymetry of the right and left frontal poles and their reverse in the occipital poles. The disorders that occur when parts of the frontal lobes are damaged by genetics, during embryo formation, by mental ilness and injury The treatment of these are discussed. Did you know that each frontal lobe gives posture to both sides of the thorax ? In hemiplegia the thorax does not bend to the side. This is a tiny insight to the frontal lobes role in executing and unifying a most simple motor matter. No this snip is not in this excellent book.
The heuristic abstraction is - One personality, one thorax, each is integrated functionally by the frontal lobes. The mechanism of integration of throacic posture is by doublimg up of inner-vation. Take it from there. This book is an exciting enthralling educating Crown Jewel.
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