The Myth of Executive Functioning (eBook)

Leonard F. Koziol is a clinical neuropsychologist with specialty board certifications in neuropsychology and pediatric neuropsychology and a recognized expert in executive function disorders. His neuropsychology practice is located in Arlington Heights, Illinois where he works with children, adolescents and adults with attention or concentration problems, memory difficulties, executive dysfunction and learning disabilities both in clinical and school settings. He has been a clinical advocate for children by arguing for the development of a diagnostic nomenclature that addresses the specific problems of children. He has served as a guest editor and contributor to special edition journals on the topics of ADHD, executive functions and the role of the cerebellum in movement and thinking.

Introduction.- Problem Solving: Practical Examples and Additional  Properties.- The Problem Solving Metaphor, Neuropsychology, and Exective Functioning.- Neuropsychological Constructs, Assumptions, and Executive Functioning: Revisiting Principles of  Brain Organization.- Functional Domains, Unitary Constructs, and the Intergrated Brain.- Large Scale Brain Systems.- The Application of Large Scale Brain Systems to Practical "EF" Behavior: Revisting the Introductory Examples.- The Novelty -Routinization Principle of  Brain Organization.- Clues to Understanding the Phylogeny of Behavioral  Control.- Ways of Generating Behavior.- Movement, Thinking, Anticipation, and  Banishing Exectuvie Functioning.- The Four Steps of the Development of the Cognitive Control System.- Abolishing the Executive and the Mind-Body Problem.- Why Cognitive Control is an Expansion of Cortical-Cerebellar and  Cortical-Basal Ganglia Motor Control  Systems.- The Cerebro-Cerebellar Underpinning of Cognitive Control.-  Structure and Function of the Cerebro-Cerebellar Circuitary System.- The Basal Ganglia Underpinning of Cognitive Control: The Fronto-Striatal System.- Cognitive Control, Reward, and the Basal Ganglia.- Basal Ganglia Dynamics, Cognition, and Social  Behavior.- Interim Summary.- How Well Do These Principles “FIT” Exceptional Cases?.- Why People Who Cannot Move Are Aable to Think.- The  Exceptionality of the Congenitally  Blind.- The Exceptionality of  Deafness.- NEeuropsychological  Testing  and  Neuropsychological  Evaluation: Is There A Difference  Between These  Aprroaches?.- Missing Elements in the Neuropsychological Assessment  of EF.- The Tradtional Neuropsychological  Assessment Paradigm.- The Motor Examination.- The Evaluation of  Reward Preferences.- Summary, Conclusions, and Future Directions.