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Right frontal lobe activation and right hemisphere performance. Decrement during a depressed mood.
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For instance, this paper found that depressed mood is characterized by asymmetrical EEG activation over the frontal lobes, with relatively greater activity in the right frontal region than the left frontal region.Abstract:
• Evidence from psychiatric patients has suggested that depressive affect may coincide with a decrement in the functioning of the right cerebral hemisphere. We have observed that college students who reported greater depression also reported less vivid imagery. Students undergoing experimental induction of depressive and euphoric moods in the laboratory showed an auditory attentional bias and impaired imagery during the depression condition, while their arithmetic task performance was unchanged. A second mood-induction experiment indicated a depressed mood to be characterized by asymmetrical EEG activation over the frontal lobes, with relatively greater activity in the right frontal region. These observations suggest that anterior regions of the brain may modulate the differential effects of emotional arousal on the information-processing capacities of the cerebral hemispheres.read more
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The circumplex model of affect: an integrative approach to affective neuroscience, cognitive development, and psychopathology
TL;DR: It is proposed that basic emotion theories no longer explain adequately the vast number of empirical observations from studies in affective neuroscience, and it is suggested that a conceptual shift is needed in the empirical approaches taken to the study of emotion and affective psychopathologies.
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Emotion, plasticity, context, and regulation: perspectives from affective neuroscience.
TL;DR: The role of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and amygdala in 2 broad approach-and withdrawal-related emotion systems is discussed in this paper, and implications of data showing experience-induced changes in the hippocampus for understanding psychopathology and stress-related symptoms are discussed.
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Anterior cerebral asymmetry and the nature of emotion
TL;DR: An overview of the author's recent electrophysiological studies of anterior cerebral asymmetries related to emotion and affective style is presented and a theoretical account is provided of the role of the two hemispheres in emotional processing.
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Valence, gender, and lateralization of functional brain anatomy in emotion: a meta-analysis of findings from neuroimaging.
TL;DR: It is found that males showed more lateralization of emotional activity, and females showed more brainstem activation in affective paradigms, providing evidence that lateralization in emotional activity is more complex and region-specific than predicted by previous theories of emotion and the brain.
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Anxiety and affective style : role of prefrontal cortex and amygdala
TL;DR: This article reviews the modern literature on two key aspects of the central circuitry of emotion: the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the amygdala, and places emphasis on affective chronometry, or the time course of emotional responding, as a key attribute of individual differences in propensity for anxiety that is regulated by this circuitry.
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