Encyclopedia of the Human Brain

Dr. Grafman has been the director of Brain Injury Research at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab ((SRALab)formally known as the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) since 2012 and is on faculty at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in the Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center as well as the Department of Psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Before joining the SRALab, Dr. Grafman was briefly director of Traumatic Brain Injury Research at the Kessler Foundation in West Orange New Jersey. Prior to that appointment in 2011, Dr. Grafman was Chief of the Cognitive Neuroscience Section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland for many years. His investigation of brain function and behavior contributes to advances in medicine, rehabilitation, and psychology, and informs ethics, law, philosophy, and health policy. His study of the human prefrontal cortex and cognitive neuroplasticity incorporates neuroimaging and genetics, an approach that is expanding our knowledge of the functions of the human frontal lobes, as well as the effects of neurological disorders that impair frontal lobe brain function.

1. Genetics and Molecular Biology
2. Anatomy
3. Physiology and Chemistry
4. Evolution
5. Autonomic Functions
6. Motor Processes
7. Sensory Processes
8. Spatial Navigation
9. Language
10. Memory
11. Neuroplasticity
12. Social Cognition
13. Executive Functions
14. Reward and Reinforcement
15. Environmental and Device Effects
16. Sex Differences
17. Development and Normal Aging
18. Neuroimaging
19. Computational Modeling
20. Methodological Issues
21. Brain Disorders
22. Recovery of Function