Journal article
Emotional and Personality Changes Following Cingulotomy
Emotion (Washington, D.C.), Vol.1(1), pp.38-50
03/2001
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.1.1.38
PMID: 12894810
Abstract
The effects of bilateral anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)
lesions on emotional and personality functioning were studied.
Patients undergoing cingulotomy for chronic intractable pain were assessed on
the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the
Profile of Mood States (POMS), cognitive tests, and
pain ratings, pre- and postsurgically. Patients with
intractable pain, not treated with cingulotomy, served as
controls. Cingulotomy patients experienced reductions in
POMS-Tension, POMS-Anger, and MMPI Scale 7
(Psychasthenia) compared with baseline and the controls.
POMS-Tension was significantly correlated with
attention-intention performance. The results indicate that the
ACC modulates emotional experience, related to self-perceived
tension, and that there is relationship between the emotional and the
attentional effects of cingulotomy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Emotional and Personality Changes Following Cingulotomy
- Creators
- Ronald A Cohen - Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of MedicineRobert Paul - Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of MedicineTricia M Zawacki - Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of MedicineDavid J Moser - Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa School of MedicineLawrence Sweet - Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of MedicineHarold Wilkinson - Department of Neurosurgery, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Emotion (Washington, D.C.), Vol.1(1), pp.38-50
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/1528-3542.1.1.38
- PMID
- 12894810
- ISSN
- 1528-3542
- eISSN
- 1931-1516
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/2001
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Medicine Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984004094602771
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