Hemispheric asymmetries play an important role in multiple cerebral functions. Asymmetries
in prefrontal cortex (PFC) function have been suggested to regulate emotional processing in …

Background While hemispheric specialization of language processing is well established,
lateralization of emotion processing is still under debate. Several conflicting hypotheses …

Although numerous EEG studies have shown that depression is associated with abnormal
functional asymmetries in frontal cortex, fMRI and PET studies have largely failed to identify …

Hemispheric differences in emotional processing have been observed for over half a
century, leading to multiple theories classifying differing roles for the right and left …

Functional neuroimaging studies of emotion processing consistently report amygdala
activation. Most of these studies observed lateralized amygdala activity, indicative of a clear …

Frontal EEG alpha band asymmetries have been linked to affective processing in healthy
individuals and affective disorders. As stress provides a strong source of negative affect, the …

Hemispheric specialization in affective responses has received little attention in the
literature. This is a fundamental variable to understand circuit dynamics of networks …

It is well established that depression and anxiety are associated with abnormal patterns of
asymmetrical brain activity, particularly in frontal regions (eg, Heller, Nitschke, & Miller …

Empirical evidence has demonstrated functional (mostly right-biased) brain asymmetry for
emotion perception, whereas recent studies indicate that acute stress may modulate left …

Converging neuroimaging and patient data suggest that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
(DLPFC) is involved in emotional processing. However, it is still not clear whether the …