EnRAGEd: Introductory notes on aggression in a case of orbitofrontal syndrome
| Autor: | Jose Fernando Muñoz Zúñiga |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Aggression General Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Neuropsychology Cognition Affective neuroscience 050108 psychoanalysis Rage (emotion) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Neuroimaging medicine Personality 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences medicine.symptom Psychiatry Psychology Prefrontal cortex 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Neuropsychoanalysis. 19:77-86 |
| ISSN: | 2044-3978 1529-4145 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15294145.2017.1295816 |
| Popis: | The orbitofrontal syndrome (OBS) is a neuropsychiatric syndrome secondary to damage in orbital areas of the prefrontal cortex. It is composed of cognitive, behavioral and affective symptoms of different grades of severity, often leading to permanent changes in personality. The case of a man who developed reactive, ego-dystonic, non-reflective and explosive aggression as part of an OBS secondary to a ruptured aneurism is examined. The clinical material is taken from multiple hospitalizations in a psychiatric clinic in Colombia, and from supportive therapy. A series of preliminary correlations are made between neuropsychiatric symptoms, neuropsychological data, neuroanatomical lesions as shown on neuroimaging and first-person subjective data. Using an affective neuroscience framework, it is hypothesized that damage to executive control of the RAGE system leads to altered functioning of neural hierarchies involved in affective processing, with affective attacks being experienced by the patient at a metapsych... |
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