Alexithymia and the split brain: VII. Evidence from graphologic signs.
This paper is the seventh report on a single experimental study of alexithymia in corpus callosotomy patients and precision-matched normal controls. This comparison is based on the hypothesis that, insofar as affective verbal expression is enhanced by cortical activities linking the nonverbal representations of emotions (feelings and symbols) of the right hemisphere of the brain to the verbalization capabilities of the left hemisphere, corpus callosotomy patients--lacking the cortical connections to make such interhemispheric exchange possible--would be alexithymic.
TenHouten
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Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Seifer
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Siegel
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D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006236:Handwriting; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012660:Semantics