The frontal lobes are the most evolutionarily advanced organ of the body. Here lies the seat of the highest human functions of thought, intellect, creativity, self-control and social interaction (Milner & Petrides, 1984; Lishman, 1987; Russell & Roxanas, 1990; Kolb & Wishaw, 1990). As one recent reviewer notes (Reading, 1991), it is hard to avoid ‘sounding metaphysical’ when going through such a list. It seems that, in accordance with psychiatry's own late phylogenesis, the frontal lobes have only just been discovered.
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Anthony S. David (1992) studied this question.
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