Edited by
François Boller, MD, PhD, Medical Officer, Division Extramural Activities, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Jordan Grafman, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Description
The fifth volume in this series covers emotional behavior and its disorders. The introductory chapters deal with the basic theoretical
and anatomical issues in the neuropsychological study of emotions. Both neurobiologically oriented and cognitively oriented theories
of emotion are presented and both the detailed anatomo-clinical and theoretical aspects of the anatomical substrates of emotions are
covered in depth. The central part of this volume addresses the problem of hemispheric asymmetries in emotional representation. The claims
for right hemisphere dominance for emotions and emotional communication are contrasted with those assuming a different hemispheric specialization
for positive vs. negative emotions and with models assuming asymmetric cortico-limbic control of human emotion. A final group of chapters
examines the neural mechanisms of the stress response and reviews the main emotional disorders. Individual differences in the hemispheric
control of the stress response are discussed and the neural mechanisms of affective/emotional disturbances are approached with neuropsychological
methods and with functional neuroimaging techniques.
Included in series
Handbook of Neuropsychology
