Gainotti G
Encephale. 1983;9(4):345-64.
In the last 10 years a very large number of clinical and experimental investigations have been devoted to the study of the relationships between emotions and cerebral dominance. The aim of the present survey is to summarize the most important results obtained along the following lines of research: --analysis of emotional behavior associated with unilateral brain lesions; --experimental research conducted both in brain-damaged patients and in normal subjects to study the processing of emotional informations and the expression of emotions; --investigations conducted in patients with right and left temporal-lobe epilepsy; --studies conducted on psychiatric patients. Two main interpretations of the relationships between emotions and cerebral dominance are considered: a) the first assumes the existence at the level of the right and left hemisphere of two specific mechanisms underlying opposite (positive vs negative) aspects of mood; b) the second assumes, on the contrary, an overall dominance of the right hemisphere for various kinds of emotions and affects. Data in favour of either interpretation are reported and some implications for psychopathology are shortly discussed.
在过去十年中，大量的临床和实验研究致力于情绪与大脑优势半球关系的研究。本次综述的目的是总结沿以下研究方向获得的最重要成果：——与单侧脑损伤相关的情绪行为分析；——在脑损伤患者和正常受试者中进行的实验研究，以研究情绪信息的处理和情绪表达；——对右侧和左侧颞叶癫痫患者进行的调查；——对精神疾病患者进行的研究。文中考虑了情绪与大脑优势半球关系的两种主要解释：a）第一种解释假定在左右半球水平存在两种特定机制，分别支撑情绪相反（积极与消极）方面；b）相反，第二种解释假定右半球对各种情绪和情感具有总体优势。文中报告了支持这两种解释的数据，并简要讨论了对精神病理学的一些启示。
