Brain Activity During Emotional States
ROBERT G. HEATH M.D., D.M.SCI.1,
ARIS W. COX M.D.2, , and
LEONARD S. LUSTICK M.S.3
1 Chairman and Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1430 Tulane Ave., New Orleans. La. 70112
2 Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1430 Tulane Ave., New Orleans. La. 70112
3 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomathematics, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1430 Tulane Ave., New Orleans. La. 70112
When a patient capable of articulate reporting was prepared with deep and surface electrodes, correlations were demonstrated between activity at certain brain sites and pleasurable or painful affect. Moreover, a functional relationship was shown between these sites for emotional expression and some sensory relay nuclei. These findings substantiate previous observations made in the Tulane University depth electrode series and add meaning to anatomic and physiologic data from animal studies that have shown an integral relationship between brain sites involved in sensory perception and those for emotional expression.
