Neuropsychological correlates of normal variation in emotional response to visual stimuli

Robert G Robinson; Sergio Paradiso; Romina Mizrahi; Jess G Fiedorowicz; Dimitrios E Kouzoukas; David J Moser

doi:10.1097/01.nmd.0000254482.44985.f6

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Neuropsychological correlates of normal variation in emotional response to visual stimuli

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Neuropsychological correlates of normal variation in emotional response to visual stimuli

Robert G Robinson, Sergio Paradiso, Romina Mizrahi, Jess G Fiedorowicz, Dimitrios E Kouzoukas and David J Moser

The journal of nervous and mental disease, Vol.195(2), pp.112-118

02/2007

DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000254482.44985.f6

PMCID: PMC2099574

PMID: 17299297

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Abstract

Although the neural substrates of induced emotion have been the focus of numerous investigations, the factors related to individual variation in emotional experience have rarely been investigated in older adults. Twenty-six older normal subjects (mean age, 54) were shown color slides to elicit emotions of sadness, fear, or happiness and asked to rate the intensity of their emotional responses. Subjects who experienced negative emotion most intensely showed relative impairment on every aspect of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. Intense positive emotion was associated with relatively impaired performance on the Rey Complex Figure Test. The volume of frontal brain structures, however, was not associated with emotion responses. Hemisphere-specific executive dysfunction was associated with greater intensity of emotional experience in normal older subjects. The role of these differences in intensity of induced emotion and impairment in executive function in daily social and vocational activity should be investigated.

Emotions - physiology

Cognition Disorders - physiopathology

Visual Perception - physiology

Age Factors

Frontal Lobe - physiopathology

Humans

Middle Aged

Male

Frontal Lobe - physiology

Mental Disorders - physiopathology

Cognition Disorders - diagnosis

Neuropsychological Tests - statistics & numerical data

Aging - physiology

Social Behavior

Individuality

Female

Mental Disorders - diagnosis

Frontal Lobe - anatomy & histology

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Title: Subtitle: Neuropsychological correlates of normal variation in emotional response to visual stimuli
Creators: Robert G Robinson - University of Iowa, Department of Psychiatry, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Sergio Paradiso
Romina Mizrahi
Jess G Fiedorowicz
Dimitrios E Kouzoukas
David J Moser
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: The journal of nervous and mental disease, Vol.195(2), pp.112-118
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000254482.44985.f6
PMID: 17299297
PMCID: PMC2099574
NLM abbreviation: J Nerv Ment Dis
ISSN: 0022-3018
eISSN: 1539-736X
Publisher: United States
Grant note: T32 MH019113 / NIMH NIH HHS L30 MH075180 / NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH019113-17 / NIMH NIH HHS L30 MH075180-01 / NIMH NIH HHS
Language: English
Date published: 02/2007
Academic Unit: Psychiatry; Epidemiology; Medicine Administration; Internal Medicine
Record Identifier: 9984003431302771

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