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Lack of heart rate changes during an attention-demanding task after right hemisphere lesions

Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; the Neurology Service, Pittsburgh VA Medical Center; and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA.

Patients with right hemisphere lesions may be impaired in mobilizing attention and in emotional behavior. If so, autonomic responses to the mobilization of' attention should be blunted. This was found when we studied the anticipatory heart rate deceleration that is seen normally in the foreperiod of a warned reaction task.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Boller, Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, 322 Scaife Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261.

Supported in part by funds from the Veterans Administration, from the Department of Neurology of the University of Pittsburgh (Dr. O.M. Reinmuth) and by grants no. MH30915 (Dr. D. Kupfer, PI), AG03705–04 and AG-MH05133–01 (Dr. F. Boller, PI), and AG03792 (Dr. R. Jennings, PI).

Presented in part at the eighth European meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 12–15, 1985, and at the thirty-eighth annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, New Orleans, LA, April 1986.

Received April 14, 1986. Accepted for publication in final form August 12, 1986.

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