Anterior electrophysiological asymmetries, emotion, and depression: Conceptual and methodological conundrums

Psychophysiology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 607-614

  Davidson, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Asymmetry; Depression; EEG

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0031950441     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0048577298000134     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Astrom, M., Adolfsson, R., & Asplund, K. (1993). Major depression in stroke patients: A 3-year longitudinal study. Stroke, 24, 976-982.
2. Beck, A. T., Ward, C. H., Mendelson, M., Mock, J., & Erbaugh, J. (1961). An inventory for measuring depression. Archives of General Psychiatry, 4, 561-571.
3. Carver, C. S., & White, T. L. (1994). Behavioral inhibition, behavioral activation and affective responses to impending reward and punishment: The BIS/BAS scales. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 319-333.
4. Cole, H. W., & Ray, W. J. (1985). EEG correlates of emotional tasks related to attentional demands. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 3, 33-41.
5. Collet, L., & Duclaux, R. (1987). Hemispheric lateralization of emotions: Absence of electrophysiological arguments. Physiological Behavior, 40, 215-220.
6. Davidson, R. J. (1984). Hemispheric asymmetry and emotion. In K. Scherer and P. Ekman (Eds.), Approaches to emotion (pp. 39-57). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
7. Davidson, R. J. (1992). Emotion and affective style: Hemispheric substrates. Psychological Science, 3, 39-43.
8. Davidson, R. J. (1993). Cerebral asymmetry and emotion: Conceptual and methodological conundrums. Cognition and Emotion, 7, 115-138.
9. Davidson, R. J. (1994). Asymmetric brain function, affective style and psychopathology: The role of early experience and plasticity. Development and Psychopathology, 6, 741-758.
10. Davidson, R. J. (1998). Affective style and affective disorders: Perspectives from affective neuroscience. Cognition and Emotion, 12, 307-330.
11. Davidson, R. J., Chapman, J. P., Chapman, L. J., & Henriques, J. B. (1990a). Asymmetrical brain electrical activity discriminates between psychometrically-matched verbal and spatial cognitive tasks. Psychophysiology, 27, 528-543.
12. Davidson, R. J., Ekman, P., Saron, C., Senulis, J. A., & Friesen, W. V. (1990b). Approach-withdrawal and cerebral asymmetry: Emotional expression and brain physiology 1. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 330-341.
13. Davidson, R. J., & Henriques, J. B. (in press). Regional brain function in sadness and depression. In J. Borod (Ed.), The neuropsychology of emotion. New York: Oxford University Press.
14. Davidson, R. J., & Hugdahl, K. (1996). Baseline asymmetries in brain electrical activity predict dichotic listening performance. Neuropsychology, 10, 241-246.
15. Davidson, R. J., Jackson, D., & Larson, C. (in press). Human electroencephalography. In J. T. Cacioppo, L. Tassinary, & G. Berntson (Eds.), Principles of psychophysiology (2nd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press.
16. Davidson, R. J., Kalin, N. H., & Shelton, S. E. (1993). Liberalized response to diazepam predicts temperamental style in rhesus monkeys. Behavioral Neuroscience, 107, 1106-1110.
17. Davidson, R. J., & Tomarken, A. J. (1989). Laterally and emotion: An electrophysiological approach. In F. Boller & J. Grafman (Eds.), Handbook of neuropsychology (pp. 419-441). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
18. Dawson, G., Klinger, L. G., Panagiotides, H., Hill, D., & Spieker, S. (1992). Frontal lobe activity and affective behavior of infants of mothers with depressive symptoms. Child Development, 63, 725-737.
19. Drevets, W. C., Price, J. L., Simpson, J. R., Todd, R. D., Reich, T., Vannier, M., & Raichle, M. E. (1997). Subgenual prefrontal cortex abnormalities in mood disorders. Nature, 386, 824-827.
20. Field, T., Fox, N. A., Pickens, J., & Nawrocki, T. (1995). Relative right frontal EEG activation in 3-to 6-month-old infants of "depressed" mothers. Developmental Psychology, 3, 358-363.
21. Gray, J. A. (1994). Three fundamental emotion systems. In P. Ekman, & R. J. Davidson (Eds.), The nature of emotion: Fundamental questions (pp. 243-247). New York: Oxford University Press.
22. Hagemann, D., Naumann, E., Becker, G., Maier, & Bartussek, D. (1998). Frontal brain asymmetry and affective style: A conceptual replication. Psychophysiology, 35, 372-388.
23. Heller, W. (1993). Neuropsychological mechanisms of individual differences in emotion, personality, and arousal. Neuropsychology, 7, 476-489.
24. Heller, W., & Nitschke, J. B. (1998). The puzzle of regional brain activity in depression nd anxiety: The importance of subtypes and comorbidity. Cognition and Emotion, 12, 421-447.
25. Henriques, J. B., & Davidson, R. J. (1990). Regional brain electrical asymmetries discriminate between previously depressed subjects and healthy controls. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 99, 22-31.
26. Henriques, J. B., & Davidson, R. J. (1991). Left frontal hypoactivation in depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 100, 535-545.
27. Herrmann, M., Bartels, C., Schumacher, M., & Wallesch, C. W. (1995). Poststroke depression: Is there a pathoanatomic correlate for depression in the postacute stage of stroke? Stroke, 26, 850-856.
28. House, A., Dennis, M., Warlow, C., Hawton, K., & Molyneux, A. (1990). Mood disorders after stroke and their relation to lesion location: A CT scan study. Brain, 113 (Pt 4), 1113-1129.
29. Irwin, W., Davidson, R. J., Lowe, M. J., Mock, B. J., Sorenson, J. A., & Turski, P. A. (1996). Human amygdala activation detected with echo-planar functional magnetic resonance imaging. NeuroReport, 7, 1765-1769.
30. Jones, N. A., Field, T., Fox, N. A., Lundy, B., & Davalos, M. (1997). EEG activation in 1-month-old infants of depressed mothers. Developmental Psychopathology, 9, 491-505.
31. Kalin, N. H., Larson, C., Shelton, S. E., & Davidson, R. J. (1998). Asymmetric frontal brain activity, cortisol, and behavior associated with fearful temperament in Rhesus monkeys. Behavioral Neuroscience, 112, 286-292.
32. Kang, D. H., Davidson, R. J., Coe, C. L., Wheeler, R. W., Tomarken, A. J., & Ershler, W. B. (1991). Frontal brain asymmetry and immune function. Behavioral Neuroscience, 105, 860-869.
33. Lang, P. J., Bradley, M. M., & Cuthbert, B. N. (1990). Emotion, attention and the startle reflex. Psychological Review, 97, 377-398.
34. Lang, P. J., Ohman, A., & Vaitl, D. (1988). The international affective picture system [photographic slides]. Gainesville, FL: The Center for Research in Psychophysiology, University of Florida.
35. Larson, C. L., Davidson, R. J., Abercrombie, H. C., Ward, R. T., Schaefer, S. M., Jackson, D. C., Holden, J. E., & Perlman, S. B. (1998). Relations between PET-derived measures of thalamic glucose metabolism and EEG alpha power. Psychophysiology, 35, 162-169.
36. Mineka, S., Watson, D., & Clark, L. A. (1998). Comorbidity of anxiety and unipolar mood disorders. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 377-412.
37. Pivik, T., Broughton, R., Coppola, R., Davidson, R. J., Fox, N. A., & Nuwer, R. (1993). Guidelines for quantitative electroencephalography in research contexts. Psychophysiology, 30, 547-558.
38. Reid, S. A., Duke, L. M., & Allen, J. J. B. (1998). Resting frontal electroencephalographic asymmetry in depression: Inconsistencies suggest the need to identify mediating factors. Psychophysiology, 35, 389-404.
39. Robinson, R. G., & Downhill J. E. (1995). Lateralization of psychopathology in response to focal brain injury. In R. J. Davidson, & K. Hugdahl (Eds.), Brain asymmetry (pp. 693-711). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
40. Robinson, R. G., Kubos, K. L., Starr, L. B., Rao, K., & Price, T. R. (1984). Mood disorders in stroke patients: Importance of location of lesion. Brain, 107, 81-93.
41. Robinson, R. G., & Price, T. R. (1982). Post-stroke depressive disorders: A follow-up of 103 patients. Stroke, 13, 635-641.
42. Schaffer, C. E., Davidson, R. J., & Saron, C. (1983). Frontal and parietal electroencephalogram asymmetry in depressed and nondepressed subjects. Biological Psychiatry, 18, 753-762.
43. Schellberg, D., Besthorn, C., Klos, T., & Gasser, T. (1990). EEG power and coherence while male adults watch emotional video films. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 3, 279-291.
44. Sobotka, S., Davidson, R. J., & Senulis, J. A. (1992). Anterior brain electrical asymmetries in response to reward and punishment. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 83, 236-247.
45. Sutton, S. K., & Davidson, R. J. (1997). Prefrontal brain asymmetry: A biological substrate of the behavioral approach and inhibition systems. Psychological Science 8, 204-210.
46. Sutton, S. K., Davidson, R. J., Donzella, B., Irwin, W., & Dottl, D. A. (1997). Manipulating affective state using extended picture presentation. Psychophysiology, 34, 217-226.
47. Tomarken, A. J., & Davidson, R. J. (1994). Frontal brain activation in repressers and non-repressors. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 103, 339-349.
48. Tomarken, A. J., Davidson, R. J., & Henriques, J. B. (1990). Resting frontal brain asymmetry predicts affective responses to films. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, 791-801.
49. Tomarken, A. J., & Keener, A. D. (1998). Frontal brain asymmetry and depression: A self-regulatory perspective. Cognition and Emotion, 12, 387-420.
50. Tomarken, A. J., Davidson, R. J., Wheeler, R. E., & Doss, R. C. (1992a). Individual differences in anterior brain asymmetry and fundamental dimensions of emotion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, 676-687.
51. Tomarken, A. J., Davidson, R. J., Wheeler, R. E., & Kinney, L. (1992b). Psychometric properties of resting anterior EEC asymmetry: Temporal stability and internal consistency. Psychophysiology, 29, 576-592.
52. Wheeler, R. E., Davidson, R. J., & Tomarken, A. J. (1993). Frontal brain asymmetry and emotional reactivity: A biological substrate of affective style. Psychophysiology, 30, 82-89.