received a similar procedure, may have survived). After his surgery, Gage, usually mild, became foul-mouthed and developed ADD-like symptoms, switching from one thing to another very rapidly. Kean talks about the thalamus and the prefrontal parietal network, the last chapter of this book, the last part of the brain, though not the only one. References External links Author's website Neuroscience books Little, Brown and Company books 2014 non-fiction books