Over the course of evolution, each half of the brain has developed its own unique strategy for perceiving, processing, and expressing information as well as specialized neuroanatomical interconnections that assist in mediating these functions. Indeed, th
Because features of abulia and apathy tend to overlap, in some stroke patients with right frontal lesions, the symptoms of defective initiation of action, as well as motor impersistence, may reflect either apathy or abulia or both. Emotional experiences and knowledge of the conditions that can ...
MRI done at the time demonstrated an acute right occipital lobe infarct (Fig. 1A–B). He also had caecal cancer, diagnosed two years earlier, with metastasis to the liver and lungs, treatment of which had included a right hemicolectomy and palliative chemotherapy. He suffered from type two...
Infarctions in the frontal lobe were observed for patients with post-stroke anxiety (PSA); the occipital infarctions also showed a tendency of higher PSA risk (p < 0.1)30. The current dataset presented the limited frontal lesions; we were unable to confirm the effect of frontal lesions ...
(1979) have found that depressed patients demonstrated more right vs left temporal lobe electrophysiological activity and EEG abnormalities. Moreover, others have argued that ECT administered to the right vs left temporal lobe is more likely to alleviate depressive symptoms (Cohen, et al, 1974; ...