Elkhonon Goldberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4489680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elkhonon Goldberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elkhonon |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldberg |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDBERG E |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4249-1907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Policy stringency and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: To date, public health policies implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic have been evaluated on the basis of their ability to reduce transmission and minimise economic harm. We aimed to assess the association between COVID-19 policy restrictions and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: In this longitudinal analysis, we combined daily policy stringency data from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker with psych…
Mental Health During the First Year of the Covid-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 has infected millions of people and upended the lives of most humans on the planet. Researchers from across the psychological sciences have sought to document and investigate the impact of COVID-19 in myriad ways, causing an explosion of research that is broad in scope, varied in methods, and challenging to consolidate. Because policy and practice aimed at helping people live healthier and happier lives requires insight from robust patte…
Creativity Understood
Book Review| April 01 2021 Creativity Understood: From Neuromythology to Neuroscience The Neuroscience of Creativity, By Anna Abraham. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 386 pp. Paper, $34.99. Elkhonon Goldberg Elkhonon Goldberg 315 West 57th Street, Suite 401, New York, NY 10019, E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The American Journal of Psychology (2021) 134 (1): 111–114. htt…
Commentary on “Consciousness in a multilevel architecture
Executive Functions in Health and Disease
Assessment of Neuropsychological Functioning
The field of neuropsychology and neuroscience in general has a history that is quite a bit older than one would think. Written records of the nervous system date back as far as 1700BC as ancient Egyptians appear to have engaged in treating head and brain injuries. This chapter reviews the historical development of modern clinical neuropsychology and presents some of the recent developments and opportunities in the field, then focuses on some inno…
Epilogue
By the the time I wrote this book I had lived significant portions of my life in the East and in the West, and by most realistic projections I had entered its final part—the time of integration, an executive task indeed. In retrospect, my own intellectual journey has been an amalgam and a melding of influences derived from these two worlds, and to the extent that I can claim an intellectual and scientific style of my own, it was shaped by this fu…
Dedication
“What Can You Do for Me?”
For many neuropsychologists, like myself, science is a labor of love, but seeing patients is bread and butter. Traditionally, the clinical contribution of neuropsychology has been mostly diagnostic, with precious little to offer patients by way of treatment. Neuropsychology is not the only clinical discipline for years consigned to helpless voyeurism. Every discipline concerned with cognition shares this humbling predicament. A psychiatrist treat…
The Brain’s Chief Executive
They arrive at work in limousines with smoked-glass windows; they ride to the top floors of the corporate headquarters in private elevators; their salaries are beyond the average person’s imagination. An informal survey suggests that they are, on average, a few inches taller than the rest of us. Cloaked in mystique and regarded with awe, they are the chief executive officers—the CEO’s of America. Up the street from the soaring midtown Manhattan c…
Breaking and Entering
While still an undergraduate at the Moscow State University, I was attracted to the idea that for neuroscience to become a mature discipline it needed its own theoretical arm, analytical tools, and mathematics, which would do for brain research what the invention of calculus by Newton and Leibnitz did for physics. It can be argued that the importance of theoretical models is greater in neuroscience than in most other areas of scientific inquiry b…
When the Leader is Wounded
The definition of disease changes over time. Classic neuropsychology was concerned with the effects of brain lesions (bullet wounds, strokes, and tumors) on cognition. This was the knowledge base on which our understanding of brain function was built. Gradually, the scope of neuropsychology has expanded, and today there are more neuropsychologists employed in psychiatric and geriatric settings than on traditional neurology services. The expansion…
Novelty, Routines, and Cerebral Hemispheres
That one hemisphere (in most cases, left) is more intimately linked to language than the other has been known for many years. Paul Pierre Broca1 and Carl Wernicke2 demonstrated in the second half of the nineteenth century that isolated lesions of the left hemisphere drastically interfere with language. Aphasias (language disturbances) are commonly seen following left-hemispheric strokes but not right-hemispheric strokes. The basic facts linking l…
Architecture of the Brain
The brain consists of hundreds of billions of cells (neurons and glial cells), intricately interconnected by pathways (dendrites and axons). Several types of neurons and glial cells exist. Some of the pathways between neurons are local, branching within their immediate “neighborhoods.” But others are long, interconnecting distant neural structures. These long pathways are covered with white fatty tissue, myelin, which facilitates the passage of t…
An End and a Beginning
Petty gripes aside, we live in a forgiving world, where the margin of error is usually quite generous. I have always suspected that even in the highest reaches of power, decision making is a pretty sloppy process. Once in a while, however, situations arise in the life of a human being, and in a society, which allow no margin of error. These critical situations tax the decision maker’s executive abilities to their utmost. At the age of 62, I can t…
Emotion and Cognition
Rigorous neuroscientific exploration of emotions was slow in coming, but owing to the work by Joseph LeDoux and others we now know that the amygdala plays a critical role in how with think and what we feel. From the work of LeDoux and colleagues we also know that a direct pathway exists between the thalamus and the amygdala, ensuring a preconscious, very rapid, and very coarse emotional appraisal of the environment. Presumably, this phylogenetica…
The Orchestra’s Front Row
To appreciate the role of the conductor, one must recognize the complexity of the orchestra. The brain orchestra consists of a large collection of players—the skills, competencies, and knowledge that comprise our mental world. And the neocortex indisputably includes the brain orchestra’s most accomplished players. Scientists have long been intrigued by the complexity and functional diversity of the brain, particularly its most advanced part, the …
The Conductor
The repertoire of every orchestra or troupe consists of pieces that have been its mainstay for years as well as relatively new additions. Likewise, the products manufactured by a company consist of older lines of products and relatively new ones. Which pieces (or products) require closer ongoing attention by the conductor/director (or the CEO)? Common sense suggests that the less streamlined or rehearsed the activities, the less likely they are t…
Different Lobes for Different Folks
Comparing the function of the normal and abnormal brain has been the mainstay of neuropsychology. It is understood that brain disease may take many forms, each corresponding to its own neurological or psychiatric condition: dementia, head injury, stroke, and so on. On the other hand, traditional neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience have adopted an abstraction, the “normal brain,” envisioned as a grand average of all individual brains. This …
Social Maturity, Morality, Law, and the Frontal Lobes
Among the myriad of anthropomorphic qualities lavished on the frontal lobes, they have been proclaimed the ultimate seat of morality. Does this mean that the underdevelopment of or damage to the frontal lobes will result in immorality? Probably not, but how about amorality? Enter the orbitofrontal syndrome. This syndrome is in many ways the opposite of the dorsolateral syndrome. Patients with orbitofrontal syndrome are emotionally disinhibited. T…
Fateful Disconnections
When my neurosurgeon friend Jim Hughes called me late one night, I had no idea that the consequences of this call would profoundly affect my career. Jim wanted me to consult on his patient, a man in his late 30s who was recovering from a head injury. It sounded like a pretty routine clinical case and I agreed to see the patient. Kevin (a fictional name) was a fabulously successful entrepreneur and entertainment executive, a happy husband and fath…
Title Pages
Frontal Lobes and the Leadership Paradox
In the spirit of interdisciplinary parallels adopted in this book, I am tempted to apply the analysis of brain evolution to the understanding of the momentous historical changes unfolding before us today. In science the convergence of conclusions based on vastly different sources of knowledge is highly valued. It lends credibility to predictions and points to universal principles underlying diverse complex systems. The search for such universal p…
The new executive brain
The Wisdom Paradox
In THE WISDOM PARADOX, world-renowned neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg argues that although some mental abilities (such as recent-memory recall) decline as the mind enters the autumn season of our lifespan and we increasingly experience 'senior moments', the brain actually becomes more powerful in its ability to recognize patterns. As a result, we are able to make decisions at more intuitive and effective levels -- a late-emerging mental stren…
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The "Alphabet of Perceptual Standards" and the Significant Parameters in the Engram of an Image
One of the most basic problems associated with the structure of perception is the "alphabet of perceptual standards." The problem may be stated as follows: What parameters are essential to the perception of a figure and determine its recognition? The need for postulating the existence of a finite set of such parameters is obvious, since without it one could not identify an infinite number of variants of the same figure
Adaptive versus Veridical Decision Making and the Frontal Lobes
Adaptive decision making and veridical decision making are based on different mechanisms. Veridical decision making is based on the identification of the correct response, which is intrinsic to the external situation and is actor-independent. Adaptive decision making is actor-centered and is guided by the actor's priorities. The prefrontal cortex is particularly critical for adaptive decision making and less so for veridical decision making. Howe…
The Wisdom Paradox
In THE WISDOM PARADOX, world-renowned neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg argues that although some mental abilities (such as recent-memory recall) decline as the mind enters the autumn season of our lifespan and we increasingly experience 'senior moments', the brain actually becomes more powerful in its ability to recognize patterns. As a result, we are able to make decisions at more intuitive and effective levels -- a late-emerging mental stren…
Epilogue
By the the time I wrote this book I had lived significant portions of my life in the East and in the West, and by most realistic projections I had entered its final part—the time of integration, an executive task indeed. In retrospect, my own intellectual journey has been an amalgam and a melding of influences derived from these two worlds, and to the extent that I can claim an intellectual and scientific style of my own, it was shaped by this fu…
Dedication
“What Can You Do for Me?”
For many neuropsychologists, like myself, science is a labor of love, but seeing patients is bread and butter. Traditionally, the clinical contribution of neuropsychology has been mostly diagnostic, with precious little to offer patients by way of treatment. Neuropsychology is not the only clinical discipline for years consigned to helpless voyeurism. Every discipline concerned with cognition shares this humbling predicament. A psychiatrist treat…
The Brain’s Chief Executive
They arrive at work in limousines with smoked-glass windows; they ride to the top floors of the corporate headquarters in private elevators; their salaries are beyond the average person’s imagination. An informal survey suggests that they are, on average, a few inches taller than the rest of us. Cloaked in mystique and regarded with awe, they are the chief executive officers—the CEO’s of America. Up the street from the soaring midtown Manhattan c…
Breaking and Entering
While still an undergraduate at the Moscow State University, I was attracted to the idea that for neuroscience to become a mature discipline it needed its own theoretical arm, analytical tools, and mathematics, which would do for brain research what the invention of calculus by Newton and Leibnitz did for physics. It can be argued that the importance of theoretical models is greater in neuroscience than in most other areas of scientific inquiry b…
When the Leader is Wounded
The definition of disease changes over time. Classic neuropsychology was concerned with the effects of brain lesions (bullet wounds, strokes, and tumors) on cognition. This was the knowledge base on which our understanding of brain function was built. Gradually, the scope of neuropsychology has expanded, and today there are more neuropsychologists employed in psychiatric and geriatric settings than on traditional neurology services. The expansion…
Novelty, Routines, and Cerebral Hemispheres
That one hemisphere (in most cases, left) is more intimately linked to language than the other has been known for many years. Paul Pierre Broca1 and Carl Wernicke2 demonstrated in the second half of the nineteenth century that isolated lesions of the left hemisphere drastically interfere with language. Aphasias (language disturbances) are commonly seen following left-hemispheric strokes but not right-hemispheric strokes. The basic facts linking l…
Architecture of the Brain
The brain consists of hundreds of billions of cells (neurons and glial cells), intricately interconnected by pathways (dendrites and axons). Several types of neurons and glial cells exist. Some of the pathways between neurons are local, branching within their immediate “neighborhoods.” But others are long, interconnecting distant neural structures. These long pathways are covered with white fatty tissue, myelin, which facilitates the passage of t…
An End and a Beginning
Petty gripes aside, we live in a forgiving world, where the margin of error is usually quite generous. I have always suspected that even in the highest reaches of power, decision making is a pretty sloppy process. Once in a while, however, situations arise in the life of a human being, and in a society, which allow no margin of error. These critical situations tax the decision maker’s executive abilities to their utmost. At the age of 62, I can t…
Emotion and Cognition
Rigorous neuroscientific exploration of emotions was slow in coming, but owing to the work by Joseph LeDoux and others we now know that the amygdala plays a critical role in how with think and what we feel. From the work of LeDoux and colleagues we also know that a direct pathway exists between the thalamus and the amygdala, ensuring a preconscious, very rapid, and very coarse emotional appraisal of the environment. Presumably, this phylogenetica…
The Orchestra’s Front Row
To appreciate the role of the conductor, one must recognize the complexity of the orchestra. The brain orchestra consists of a large collection of players—the skills, competencies, and knowledge that comprise our mental world. And the neocortex indisputably includes the brain orchestra’s most accomplished players. Scientists have long been intrigued by the complexity and functional diversity of the brain, particularly its most advanced part, the …
The Conductor
The repertoire of every orchestra or troupe consists of pieces that have been its mainstay for years as well as relatively new additions. Likewise, the products manufactured by a company consist of older lines of products and relatively new ones. Which pieces (or products) require closer ongoing attention by the conductor/director (or the CEO)? Common sense suggests that the less streamlined or rehearsed the activities, the less likely they are t…
Different Lobes for Different Folks
Comparing the function of the normal and abnormal brain has been the mainstay of neuropsychology. It is understood that brain disease may take many forms, each corresponding to its own neurological or psychiatric condition: dementia, head injury, stroke, and so on. On the other hand, traditional neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience have adopted an abstraction, the “normal brain,” envisioned as a grand average of all individual brains. This …
Social Maturity, Morality, Law, and the Frontal Lobes
Among the myriad of anthropomorphic qualities lavished on the frontal lobes, they have been proclaimed the ultimate seat of morality. Does this mean that the underdevelopment of or damage to the frontal lobes will result in immorality? Probably not, but how about amorality? Enter the orbitofrontal syndrome. This syndrome is in many ways the opposite of the dorsolateral syndrome. Patients with orbitofrontal syndrome are emotionally disinhibited. T…
Fateful Disconnections
When my neurosurgeon friend Jim Hughes called me late one night, I had no idea that the consequences of this call would profoundly affect my career. Jim wanted me to consult on his patient, a man in his late 30s who was recovering from a head injury. It sounded like a pretty routine clinical case and I agreed to see the patient. Kevin (a fictional name) was a fabulously successful entrepreneur and entertainment executive, a happy husband and fath…
Title Pages
Frontal Lobes and the Leadership Paradox
In the spirit of interdisciplinary parallels adopted in this book, I am tempted to apply the analysis of brain evolution to the understanding of the momentous historical changes unfolding before us today. In science the convergence of conclusions based on vastly different sources of knowledge is highly valued. It lends credibility to predictions and points to universal principles underlying diverse complex systems. The search for such universal p…
The new executive brain
Assessment of Neuropsychological Functioning
The field of neuropsychology and neuroscience in general has a history that is quite a bit older than one would think. Written records of the nervous system date back as far as 1700BC as ancient Egyptians appear to have engaged in treating head and brain injuries. This chapter reviews the historical development of modern clinical neuropsychology and presents some of the recent developments and opportunities in the field, then focuses on some inno…
Executive Functions in Health and Disease
Commentary on “Consciousness in a multilevel architecture
Creativity Understood
Book Review| April 01 2021 Creativity Understood: From Neuromythology to Neuroscience The Neuroscience of Creativity, By Anna Abraham. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 386 pp. Paper, $34.99. Elkhonon Goldberg Elkhonon Goldberg 315 West 57th Street, Suite 401, New York, NY 10019, E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The American Journal of Psychology (2021) 134 (1): 111–114. htt…
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