Right Hemisphere, Left Hemisphere, Consciousness & the Unconscious, Brain and Mind

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Right Hemisphere: Emotion, Language, Music, Visual-Spatial Skills, Confabulation, Body-Image, Facial Recognition, Dreams, Consciousness -8 The right & left cerebral hemisphere -9 Left hemisphere overview -11 Broca s aphasia -13 Aphasia & depression -14 Wernicke s area -15 Right hemisphere & language. Comprehension & expression of emotional speech -17 Right hemisphere emotional-melodic language axis -19 Confabulation -21 Memory and confabulation -22 Music and non-verbal environmental and animal sounds -24 Music and emotion -28 Left hemisphere musical contributions -29 Music, math and geometric space -30 Constructional and spatial perceptual skills -33 Sex differences in spatial ability -34 Visual-perceptual abnormalities -35 Drawing and constructional deficits -36 Inattention and visual-spatial neglect -38 The right frontal lobe: arousal & neglect -42 Disturbances of the body image -40 Pain and hysteria -42 Facial-emotional recognition and prosopagnosia -44 Disturbances of emotion and personality -overview -47 Mania and emotional incontinence -48 Split-brain: right hemisphere mental functioning -49 Right brain perversity -57 Lateralized goals, attitudes, memory functioning -57 Unilateral memory storage -58 Dreaming and hemispheric oscillation -60 Day dreams, night dreams, and hemispheric oscillation -61 Hallucinations & imagery -62 Dream stimulants -63 Dreams & emotional trauma -65 Long lost childhood memories -amnesia for early childhood -66 Emotion and right brain functioning in children -67 Functional commissurotomies and limited interhemispheric transfer -70 Split-brain functioning in children: the ontology of emotional conflict -71 2. Left Hemisphere: Language, Consciousness, Handedness, Aphasia, Apraxia, Alexia Agraphia, Depression, Schizophrenia, Evolution, Thought -75 Broca s area -77 Anomia or word finding difficulty -79 Broca s expressive aphasia -80 Sex differences in expressive aphasia -83 Depression & broca s aphasia -84 Apathetic states. Psychosis & blunted (negative) schizophrenia -85 Wernicke s area -87 Receptive aphasia -88 Fluent jargon aphasia -89 Anosagnosia, aphasia, emotion schizophrenia -91 Global aphasia -92 Transcortical aphasia: isolation of the speech area -94 Language, handedness, & temporal-sequential motor control -95 Evolution of handedness -96 Evolution of handedness, Broca s area & the IPL -99 Development and the corticospinal tracts -101 The evolution of walking & handedness -101 Handedness, language & took making in non-human primates -102 The inferior parietal lobe and language -105 Limbic language: evolution of the neocortical language areas -105 Naming, knowing, counting, finger recognition & hand control -108 Apraxia -109 The organization of linguistic thought -110 The train of thought associations -111 Confabulation & gap filling -113 Conduction aphasia -113 Visual agnosia -114 Alexia & agraphia -115 Evolution of reading & writing -116 Alexia: reading abnormalities -118 Alexia: Pure word blindness. Alexia without agraphia -120 Developmental dyslexia -121 Agraphia & Exner s writing area -122 Math & numbers: Evolution of geometry & math -123 Acalculia -129 The sounds of speech: Filtering, feedback & temporal-sequential reorganization - 133 Sustained auditory activity - 134 Hearing sounds & language. Phonemes & morphemes -137 Consonants and vowels -138 Grammar & auditory closure - 139 Universal grammars. Fine Tuning of Language Perception - 142 Language and reality -143 The left hemisphere & consciousness - 144