Right hemisphere abnormalities in major depression: Quantitative electroencephalographic findings before and after treatment

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 169-173

  Kwon, Jun Soo ^a   Youn, Tak ^a   Jung, Hee Yeon ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Major depression; QEEG; Right hemisphere; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 0030583533     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-0327(96)00057-2     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Abrams, R. and Taylor, M.A. (1979) Differential EEG patterns in affective disorder and schizophrenia. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 36, 1355-1358.
2. Allen, J.J., Iacono, W.G., Depue, R.A. and Arbisi, P. (1993) Regional electroencephalographic asymmetries in bipolar seasonal affective disorder before and after exposure to bright light. Biol. Psychiatry 33, 642-646.
3. American Psychiatric Association (1987) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd Edn.-Revised. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
4. Armitage, R., Roffwarg, H.P. and Rush, A.J. (1992) Interhemispheric sleep EEG relationships in depression. Biol. Psychiatry 31, 73A.
5. Bruder, G.E., Towey, J.P., Stewart, J.W., David, F., Tenke, C. and Quikin, F.M. (1991) Event-related potentials in depression: influence of task, stimulus hemifield and clinical features on P3 latency. Biol. Psychiatry 30, 233-246.
6. Coffey, C.E. (1987) Cerebral laterality and emotion: the neurology of depression. Compr. Psychiatry 28, 197-219.
7. Dierks, T., Becjer, T. and Mauer, K. (1993) Brain electrical activity in depression described by equivalent dipoles. J. Affect. Disord. 28, 95-104.
8. Flor-Henry, P. (1979) On certain aspects of the localization of the cerebral systems regulating and determining emotion. Biol. Psychiatry 14, 677-698.
9. Fox, N.A. (1991) If it's not left, it's right; electroencephalograph asymmetry and the development of emotion. Am. Psychol. 46, 863-872.
10. Gasser, T., Bacher, P. and Mock, J. (1982) Transformation towards the normal distribution of broad band spectral parameters of the EEG. Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol. 53, 119-124.
11. Hamilton, M. (1960) A rating scale for depression. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry 23, 56-62.
12. Henriques, J.B. and Davidson, R.J. (1990) Regional brain electrical asymmetries discriminate between previously depressed and healthy control subjects. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 99, 22-31.
13. John, E.R., Ahn, H. and Prichep, L. (1980) Developmental equations for the electroencephalogram. Science. 210, 1255-1258.
14. Kemali, D., Vacca, L., Marciano, F., Nolfe, G. and Iorio, G. (1981) CEEG findings in schizophrenics, depressives, obsessives, heroin addicts and normals. Adv. Biol. Psychiatry 6, 17-28.
15. Knott, V.J. and Lapierre, Y.D. (1987) Computerized EEG correlates of depression and antidepressants treatment. Prog. Neuropsychopharmacol. Biol. Psychiatry 11, 213-221.
16. Kupfer, D.J., Ehlers, C.L., Frank, E., Grochocinski, V.J., McEachran, A.B. and Buhari, A. (1994) Persistent effects of antidepressants: EEG sleep studies in depressed patients during maintenance treatment. Biol. Psychiatry 35, 781-793.
17. Lesser, I.M., Mena, I., Boone, K.B., Miller, B.L., Mehringer, C.M. and Wohl, M. (1994) Reduction of cerebral blood flow in older depressed patients. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 51, 677-686.
18. Lishman, W.A. (1968) Brain damage in relation to psychiatric disability after head injury. Br. J. Psychiatry 114, 373-410.
19. 2 serotonin receptors after stroke: lateralized changes and relationship to depression. Am. J. Psychiatry 145, 937-943.
20. Pollock, V.E. and Schneider, L.S. (1990) Quantitative, waking EEG research on depression. Biol. Psychiatry 27, 757-780.
21. Post, R.M. (1995) Mood disorder: somatic treatment. In: Kaplan, H.I. and Sadock, B.J. (Eds.) Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry, 6th Edn. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD, pp. 1152-1178.
22. Post, R.M., DeLisi, L.E., Holcomb, H.H., Uhde, T.W., Cohen, R. and Buchsbaum, M.S. (1987) Glucose utilization in the temporal cortex of affectively ill patients: positron emission tomography. Biol. Psychiatry 22, 545-553.
23. Primavera, A. and Novello, P. (1992) Quantitative electroencephalography in Parkinson's disease, dementia, depression and normal aging. Neuropsychobiology 25, 102-105.
24. Robinson, R.G. and Szetele, D. (1981) Mood changes following left hemisphere brain injury. Ann. Neurol. 9, 447-453.
25. Schaffer, C.E., Davidson, R.J. and Saron, C. (1983) Frontal and parietal electroencephalogram asymmetry in depressed and nondepressed subjects. Biol. Psychiatry 18, 753-762.
26. Schlegel, S., Aldenhoff, J.B., Eissner, D., Lindner, P. and Nickel O. (1989) Regional cerebral blood flow in depression: associations with psychopathology. J. Affect. Disord. 17, 211-218.
27. Tarn, M., Edwards J.G. and Sedwick E.M. (1993) Fluoxetine, amitriptyline and the electroencephalogram. J. Affect. Disord. 29, 7-10.
28. Uytdenhoef, P., Portelange, P., Jacquy, J., Charles, G., Linkowski, P. and Mendlewicz, J. (1983) Regional cerebral blood flow and lateralized hemisphere dysfunction in depression. Br. J. Psychiatry 143, 128-132.