RT Book, Section
A1 Putcha, Deepti
A1 Erkkinen, Michael
A1 Daffner, Kirk R.
A2 Silbersweig, David A.
A2 Safar, Laura T.
A2 Daffner, Kirk R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1178760997
T1 Functional Neurocircuitry of Cognition and Cognitive Syndromes 
T2 Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology: Principles and Practice
YR 2021
FD 2021
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260117103
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1178760997
RD 2024/04/18
AB To  maintain  our  survival  and  well-being,  the  nervous  systems  must  carry  out  a  number  of  critical  operations  that  comprise  cognition.  We  need  to  process  information  about  the  external  environment  (sensory-perceptual  representations  and  visuospatial  cognition)  and  be  able  to  prepare  and  execute  actions  (motor  planning  and  output).  We  rely  on  information  that  allows  us  to  communicate  with  others  (language),  and  encode,  store,  and  retrieve  information  (learning  and  memory).  Importantly,  we  must  be  able  to  select,  control,  and  monitor  these  complex  operations  as  internal  and  external  demands  shift  (executive  control  functions).  This  chapter  will  explore  the  neural  circuitry  underlying  these  varied  cognitive  processes.  In  our  companion  chapter  (Chapter  12),  we  will  illustrate  how  disruption  of  these  operations  can  impact  patients,  and  outline  an  approach  to  localization  providing  a  series  of  clinical  cases  as  examples.  Of  note,  behavioral  neurology  and  cognitive  neuroscience  are  dynamically  changing  fields.  We  present  a  brief  snapshot  of  the  state  of  our  discipline,  and  fully  acknowledge  the  ongoing  debate  about  which  proposed  frameworks  provide  the  best  account  of  the  relevant  data.  In  some  of  the  “boxes”  included  throughout  the  chapter,  we  briefly  highlight  differences  between  classical  and  emerging  theories,  and  touch  upon  some  unresolved  controversies.  Other  boxes  will  provide  a  summary  of  the  neural  circuitry  subserving  each  of  the  major  cognitive  realms  discussed.