Of the thousands of recent books on the human brain that attempt to bridge science and popular science, Dr. Joaquin Fuster’s The Prefrontal Cortex, Fourth Edition (Academic Press, London, 2008) stands head and shoulders above the crowd. Critically acclaimed by Neuroscientists for nearly 30 years, the updated edition organizes perhaps the most disorganized field in all of Neuroscience: Neural Imaging. The recent update of this classic broadens its scope on the relationship of the PFC to behavior in such a thorough and convincing way, that the book has become a MUST read for every human interested in self-discovery, not just Neuroscience. Beyond self discovery and an astonishing review of current research in the area of the brain that arguably “makes us human,” the book rewards in other ways too numerous to list, among which is the intellectual rigor of Dr. Fuster’s style, which is simply a delight to behold. An investment worth your time, it will light up new areas of the PFC with each reading.

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