Abstract
The authors have studied in 31 patients affected by right (N = 12) or left (N = 19) hemispheric lesions and in 10 normal controls the autonomous response to emotional stimuli. Stimuli consisted of 3 short films, aiming to provoke a negative emotional reaction, a positive emotional response or a non-emotional reaction. Galvanic skin response and heart rate were considered the dependent variables of our research. Both normal controls and left brain-damaged patients were very influenced by the emotional nature of the stimuli and showed clear signs of activation of the sympathetic and para-sympathetic systems in the face of emotional films. By contrast, right brain-damaged patients were not influenced by the emotional or non-emotional nature of the stimuli and showed neither a clear galvanic skin response nor a significant decrease of heart rate in the face of emotional films.
| Translated title of the contribution | Vegetative responses to emotional stimuli in unilateral brain-damaged patients |
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| Original language | French |
| Pages (from-to) | 263-268 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Encephale |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - 1986 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychiatry and Mental health
- Neuroscience(all)