Open AccessNeuropsychology of prefrontal cortex
Author(s) -
Shazia Veqar Siddiqui,
Ushri Chatterjee,
Deepak Kumar,
Aleem Siddiqui,
Nishant Goyal
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.43634
Subject(s) - neuropsychology , prefrontal cortex , psychology , neuroscience , consumer neuroscience , cognitive psychology , cognition
The history of clinical frontal lobe study is long and rich which provides valuable insights into neuropsychologic determinants of functions of prefrontal cortex (PFC). PFC is often classified as multimodal association cortex as extremely processed information from various sensory modalities is integrated here in a precise fashion to form the physiologic constructs of memory, perception, and diverse cognitive processes. Human neuropsychologic studies also support the notion of different functional operations within the PFC. The specification of the component 'executive' processes and their localization to particular regions of PFC have been implicated in a wide variety of psychiatric disorders.