Internally and externally generated emotions in people with acquired brain injury: preservation of emotional experience after right hemisphere lesions.

ABSTRACT: The study of emotional changes after brain injury has contributed enormously to the understanding of the neural basis of emotion. However, little attention has been placed on the methods used to elicit emotional responses in people with brain damage. Of particular interest are subjects with right hemisphere [RH] cortical lesions, who have been described as presenting impairment in emotional processing. In this article, an internal and external mood induction procedure [MIP] was used to trigger positive and negative emotions, in a sample of 10 participants with RH damage, and 15 healthy controls. Emotional experience was registered by using a self-report questionnaire. As observed in previous studies, internal and external MIPs were equally effective in eliciting the target emotion, but the

SUBMITTER: Salas Riquelme CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4329804 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature