Attention and its disorders

Br Med Bull. 2003:65:21-34. doi: 10.1093/bmb/65.1.21.

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the clinical aspects of attention including anatomy, cognitive neuropsychology, disorders, and functional imaging evidence for the role of attention in cognition. Particular emphasis is given to selected aspects of visual attention. Imaging studies discussed are primarily functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET). In addition, some evidence will be provided from the time-honoured clinical method of lesion studies.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Attention / physiology*
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / physiology*
  • Brain / physiopathology
  • Cognition Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Cognition Disorders / diagnostic imaging
  • Cognition Disorders / pathology
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Models, Neurological
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed
  • Visual Perception / physiology