Localised emotionality by FDG-PET in patients with multiple sclerosis

Introduction: Since 1881 different groups tried to allocate emotionality to one definite hemisphere. Gainotti found an increased emotionality in patients with left-sided hemispheric lesions. In contrast Sackheim attached positive emotion to the left and negative emotion to the right hemisphere. Our study focused on detecting an possible impairment of glucose metabolism by FDG-PET in 11 patients with newly diagnosed definite multiple sclerosis (MS) in correlation with the dimensions of the personality evaluated by the „Fribourg Personality Inventory“ (FPI) Methods: Twelve dimensions of the personality were evalua…