Effects of alexithymia on the activity of the anterior and posterior areas of the cortex of the right hemisphere in positive and negative emotional activation

Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-73

  Aftanas, L I ^a   Varlamov, A A ^a  

^a SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND BASIC MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; EEG; Emotion; Emotional activation; Interhemisphere activatory asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; THETA RHYTHM; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33845685501     PISSN: 00970549     EISSN: 1573899X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11055-007-0151-z     Document Type: Article

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