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Editorial introduction to Greenwood/West dialogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2000

JASON BRANDT
Affiliation:
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Abstract

Although a U.S. Presidential Proclamation designated the 1990s “The Decade of the Brain,” not all cerebral constituents shared equally in the limelight. By anyone's accounting, the prefrontal cortex was the darling of clinicians and neuroscientists throughout the '90s, with everything from schizophrenia and anorexia nervosa to pathological gambling and the emergence of artistic skill attributed to “frontal lobe dysfunction” (David, 1992; Miller et al., 1998; Rugle & Melamed, 1993). It should come as no surprise, then, that that most universal of cognitive afflictions, aging, should be linked to changes in frontal cortex.

Type
CRITICAL REVIEW
Copyright
© 2000 The International Neuropsychological Society

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