title: Electroencephalogram, bilateral ear temperature, and affect changes induced by lateral visual field stimulation.
abstract: Fifteen subjects evaluated while wearing, in random order, four pairs of glasses, two limiting vision to either the left or right lateral visual field (LVF) and two monocular glasses (MGs) limiting vision to either eye, manifested significant differences in laterality indices in the predicted direction for the theta electroencephalogram (EEG) (P < .003) and ear canal temperature (P < .02) between the LVF glasses, but not the MGs. There was a significant correlation between lateral shifts in the theta EEG and ear canal temperature (r2 = .47, F(1,10) = 8.72, P < .015). The LVF glasses induced an absolute difference in anxiety greater (P < .05) than that induced by the MGs. LVF glasses appear to induce a shift in affect and hemispheric dominance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schiffer
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Teicher
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001831:Body Temperature / Q000502:physiology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D004424:Ear Canal / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005139:Eyeglasses; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D011379:Prognosis; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D015349:Vision, Monocular / Q000502:physiology; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology*