4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Soviet neuropsychologist who founded neuropsychology as a clinical discipline — developing the first systematic approach to diagnosing and rehabilitating cognitive deficits from brain lesions — and contributed foundational work on cross-cultural differences in cognitive categorization.
American neuropsychologist and author whose Hardwiring Happiness presents the practice of taking in the good — deliberately dwelling on positive experiences to shift the brain's negativity bias through neuroplasticity.
Russian-American neuropsychologist and student of Aleksandr Luria who developed the gradient theory of frontal lobe function — proposing that the right hemisphere handles novel information and the left handles routinized processing.
British neuropsychologist who developed the theory of the Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) — identifying the neural circuit that activates when organisms encounter punishment, non-reward, novelty, or conflicting goals — providing the biological foundation for anxiety theory.