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(The Science and Practice of Neuropsychology.) Second edition. Edited by Bruce L. Miller and Jeffrey L. Cummings. 666 pp., illustrated. New York, Guilford Press, 2007. $95. ISBN 978-1-59385-329-7.

The evolution of the human frontal lobes lies at the very essence of the characteristic behavior of humans. Everyday traits that define our existence, both socially and as individuals, have important substrates in the frontal lobes: humor, intuition and insight, deception and truthfulness, optimism and skepticism, affection and hatred, and inspiration. One of the great tragedies for patients and their families is a disease of the frontal lobes that destroys the distinctive personality around which a whole life has been built.

In this book, Bruce Miller and Jeffrey Cummings have done a fine job in drawing together the disparate strands . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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