Subcortical Structures and Cognition: Implications for Neuropsychological Assessment / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780387848662 Publisher: Springer New York Publication date: 12/02/2008 Edition description: 2009 Pages: 405 Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d) Clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists are traditionally taught that cognition is mediated by the cortex and that subcortical brain regions mediate the coordination of movement. However, this argument can easily be challenged based upon the anatomic organization of the brain. The relationship between the prefrontal cortex/frontal lobes and basal ganglia is characterized by loops from these anterior brain regions to the striatum, the globus pallidus, and the thalamus, and then back to the frontal cortex. There is also a cerebrocerebellar system defined by projections from the cerebral cortex to the pontine nuclei, to the cerebellar cortex and deep cerebellar nuclei, to the red nucleus and then back to thalamus and cerebral cortex, including all regions of the frontal lobes. Therefore, both the cortical-striatal and