Woolley J D, Gorno-Tempini M L, Werner K, Rankin K P, Ekman P, Levenson R W, Miller B L
Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-1207, USA.
Neurology. 2004 Nov 9;63(9):1740-3. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000143054.54412.5b.
The authors describe a patient with focal brain atrophy and emotional lability characterized by episodes of excessive crying and laughing. The patient was selectively impaired in the production of voluntary complex facial movements and was unable to regulate her emotional behavior and autonomic reactivity. She also displayed increased behavioral and autonomic changes when explicitly trying to suppress her responses to emotional stimuli (compared with when not trying to regulate her responses). This pattern of deficits supports a selective deficit in voluntary emotional control.
作者描述了一名患有局灶性脑萎缩和情绪不稳定的患者，其特征为频繁出现哭笑发作。该患者在自主复杂面部运动的产生方面存在选择性受损，并且无法调节自己的情绪行为和自主反应。当她明确试图抑制对情绪刺激的反应时（与不试图调节反应时相比），还表现出行为和自主变化增加。这种缺陷模式支持了自愿情绪控制方面的选择性缺陷。
