Hemispheric dissociation of anxiety and autonomic arousal during lateral visual field viewing: a case report
Fredric Schiffer
We report a clinical case illustrating rapid, reversible, and reproducible hemispheric differences in subjective experience and autonomic arousal during lateral visual field viewing. A man in his 40s with longstanding anxiety and depression showed repeatable shifts in affective state, self-appraisal, and appraisal of the clinician when alternately viewing through the right versus left lateral visual field while holding the same shame-evoking interpersonal scenario in mind. Pulse rate measured wi