PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article summarizes the cognitive and behavioral functions of
the prefrontal cortex with an emphasis on executive cognitive functions and the clinical …

Proceeding from the assumptions that specific frontal regions control discrete functions and
that very basic cognitive processes can be systematically manipulated to reveal those …

Objectives: Several risk and protective factors are associated with changes in cognitive
functioning in aging adults–including physical health, depression, physical activity, and …

Background and Purpose—Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is a medical
emergency characterized by the accumulation of blood in the subarachnoid space …

Currently, there is debate among scholars regarding how to operationalize and measure
executive functions. These functions generally are referred to as “supervisory” cognitive …

Accessible neuroimaging tools that can identify specific frontal lobe dysfunction associated
with psychiatric disorders could be useful for improving disease diagnosis and prognosis …

Background and Purpose—One in 3 individuals will experience a stroke, dementia or both.
Moreover, twice as many individuals will have cognitive impairment short of dementia as …

Neuropsychology has customarily taken a molecular and myopic view of executive
functioning, concentrating largely on those proximal processes of which it may be …

▪ Abstract Clinical neuropsychologists have adopted numerous (and sometimes conflicting)
approaches to the assessment of brain-behavior relationships. We review the historical …

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate whether phonemic and semantic verbal
fluency were more related to aspects of language processing than executive functioning …