Archive 1992–2014

The paper presents the state-of-the-art knowledge (clinical observations, experimentalresearch results andfindings obtained by means of neuroimaging techniques) about the cerebrallateralizationof emotions in healthy people, patients withmental disorders, and patients with unilateral brainlesions. An attempt was made to systematize methodsused in the research on emotions. A large number of studies, diversity of research procedures used to assesscerebrallateralization of emotions, discrepanciesin obtained researchfindings indicate the complexityof cerebral hemispheres specialization and collaboration,as well as the lack of a consistent theory of theresearch subject.