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Emotions and the Right Side of the Brain

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Guido Gainotti. --Cham: Springer , c2020.

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This book focuses on asymmetries in brain structure and their role in emotional functions (such as amygdala in emotional comprehension, the ventro-medial prefrontal cortex in the integration between cognition and emotion and in the control of emotional reactions, and the anterior insula in the experience of emotions). The idea of hemispheric asymmetries in emotional comprehension and expression was first proposed about a century after the first studies showing that the left hemisphere is domina…

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Author: Gainotti, Guido

Responsibility: Guido Gainotti

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2020

Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 96 p.) : 5 illus. in color

ISBN: 9783030340902; 9783030340896 (Print ed.); 9783030340919 (Print ed.); 9783030340926 (Print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Cerebrum - physiology; Dominance, Cerebral - physiology; Emotions - physiology; Neuropsychology

Specialty: Psychology; Neurology

Abstract: This book focuses on asymmetries in brain structure and their role in emotional functions (such as amygdala in emotional comprehension, the ventro-medial prefrontal cortex in the integration between cognition and emotion and in the control of emotional reactions, and the anterior insula in the experience of emotions). The idea of hemispheric asymmetries in emotional comprehension and expression was first proposed about a century after the first studies showing that the left hemisphere is dominant for language, but it quickly became very popular. Initial investigations considered the right and left hemispheres as single functional units, but in the last few years several researchers have focused attention on asymmetries in brain structures playing a critical role in specific components of emotional functions. Furthermore, interesting data have been obtained by studying emotional and behavioural disorders of patients with asymmetrical forms of frontal or temporal variants of fronto-temporal degeneration. Elaborating on these subjects requires, on the one hand, a consolidated understanding of how models concerning the relationships between emotions and hemispheric asymmetries evolved in time and, on the other hand, a sound interdisciplinary knowledge of psychology (nature, components and hierarchical organization of emotions) and neuroscience (neuroanatomy). This volume – intended for neurologists, neuroscientists and psychologists – pursues an organic and consistent approach to provide an overview of these complex and fascinating issues.

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. What Are Emotions? -- 3. Brain Structures Playing a Critical Role in Different Components and Hierarchical Levels of Emotions -- 4. The History of Research on Emotional Laterality -- 5. Recent Trends in the Study of the Links Between Emotions and Brain Laterality -- 6. General Neurobiological Models Advanced to Explain Results Obtained Following these New Lines of Research -- 7. Some Psychopathological Implications of Hemispheric Asymmetries for Emotions -- 8. Concluding Remarks: Special Relations Between Emotional System and Sympathetic Activities.