Emotions and the Right Hemisphere

Dear Colleagues,

The first clinical and experimental studies dealing with hemispheric asymmetries in comprehension, experience, and expression of emotions had been conducted in patients with focal brain lesions or in normal subjects investigated with special experimental procedures. They had suggested the models of a different hemispheric specialization and of a general right hemisphere dominance for emotions.

In more recent times, our knowledge of these hemispheric asymmetries has been increased by new lines of research which have investigated: (a) asymmetries in emotional behaviors in animals; (b) neuroanatomical asymmetries in structures playing a critical role in various aspects of emotions, and (c) behavioral and emotional disorders in patients with degenerative brain diseases, temporal lobe epilepsy, and abnormal kinds of emotion regulations.

This Special Issue of Brain Sciences aims to update our knowledge of these lines of research, providing new data and reviews of these advancements.

Prof. Dr. Guido Gainotti
Guest Editor

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