{"id":315,"date":"2016-10-20T14:16:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/?p=315"},"modified":"2016-10-20T15:20:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T15:20:42","slug":"sarah-macpherson-frontal-lobe-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/sarah-macpherson-frontal-lobe-functions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah MacPherson: Frontal Lobe Functions and Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What exactly is the frontal lobe of the brain, and why is\u00a0it important? <\/strong>In this podcast, PPLS&#8217;s Sarah MacPherson, Senior Lecturer in Human Cognitive Neuroscience in the Psychology Department, explains the complexities of frontal lobe functions in healthy ageing and damaged brains.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/288815970&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sarah talks about the different types of testing methods used to assess people with frontal lobe damage, as explored in her book The Handbook of Frontal Lobe Assessment. She also explains what these different approaches can ultimately mean\u00a0in outcomes for\u00a0patients.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/files\/2016\/10\/Sarah-MacPherson-Podcast-Transcript.pdf\">Podcast transcript (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/handbook-of-frontal-lobe-assessment-9780199669523?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;\">Handbook of Frontal Lobe Assessment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/profile\/sarah-e-macpherson\">Sarah MacPherson webpage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/ppls\/psychology\">Psychology\u00a0at The University of Edinburgh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What exactly is the frontal lobe of the brain, and why is\u00a0it important? In this podcast, PPLS&#8217;s Sarah MacPherson, Senior Lecturer in Human Cognitive Neuroscience in the Psychology Department, explains the complexities of frontal lobe functions in healthy ageing and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/sarah-macpherson-frontal-lobe-functions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}