title: Lateral brain function in normal and disordered emotion: interpreting electroencephalographic evidence.
abstract: Given the developing awareness of the lateral specialization of the human brain for both cognitive and emotional processes, the recent findings of characteristic hemispheric asymmetries in psychopathological groups suggests a neuropsychological model may be explanatory for abnormal psychology. Since the activity of arousal systems of the brain is a primary issue in interpreting both biochemical abnormalities and thought disorders in psychopathology, electroencephalographic (EEG) measures of cortical arousal are relevant. A better understanding of the relation of EEG measures to normal emotional arousal and cognitive effort may facilitate interpretation of the functional significance of EEG asymmetries in psychopathology.
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect / Q000502:physiology; D000513:Alpha Rhythm; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D003863:Depression / Q000503:physiopathology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012723:Sex