The Right Hemisphere: Neurology and Neuropsychology

Right hemisphere language functions and schizophrenia: the forgotten hemisphere?

This review highlights the importance of right hemisphere language functions for successful social communication and advances the hypothesis that the core deficit in psychosis is a failure of segregation of right from left hemisphere functions. Lesion studies of stroke patients and dichotic listening and functional imaging studies of healthy people have shown that some language functions are me...

Hypnosis in the right hemisphere.

Speculations about the neural substrates of hypnosis have often focused on the right hemisphere (RH), implying that RH damage should impair hypnotic responsiveness more than left-hemisphere (LH) damage. The present study examined the performance of a patient who suffered a stroke destroying most of his LH, on slightly modified versions of two hypnotizability scales. This patient was at least mo...

Functional Imaging in Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuropsychology

Introduction What can we hope to learn of the physical operation of the central nervous system and the mental processes that result? The fields of behavioral neurology and cognitive neuropsychology survey this relationship, and have at their disposal powerful intellectual and methodological tools. While the terrain of possible models of brain and behavior interaction seems boundless, particular...

Unconscious Emotional Memories and the Right Hemisphere

Visuospatial processing and the right-hemisphere interpreter.

Popular views of hemispheric asymmetry hold that the left hemisphere is specialized for linguistic and cognitive processes and fine motor control, whereas the right is specialized for visuospatial processing. Although this dichotomy contains more than a grain of truth, it is an oversimplification. Experiments with split-brain patients have demonstrated that the left hemisphere retains relativel...