All neurologists, I imagine, have a favorite lobe. Mine is the frontal lobe. Let me explain why. Athena sprang fully formed from Zeus’s forehead. Obviously this means she erupted from his frontal lobe, that’s what makes her the goddess of wisdom. Obviously. Anyways. While things are not neatly encoded in discrete brain regions in general, it’s still fair to say the frontal lobe houses much of what makes us human. All neurologists, I imagine, have heard the story of Phineas Ga