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5.12 - Attention

from 5 - Neural Circuits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2023

By
Trevor W. Robbins  and
Barbara J. Sahakian
Edited by
Mary-Ellen Lynall ,
Peter B. Jones  and
Stephen M. Stahl
Mary-Ellen Lynall
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Peter B. Jones
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Stephen M. Stahl
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Summary

Attention is a key cognitive domain and without it we could not learn. Furthermore, getting distracted and losing the focus of our attention at critical times, such as attending to our mobile phones when a text arrives rather than attending to oncoming traffic in a busy street, could be life-threatening. Several psychiatric symptoms, across a range of mental health disorders, appear to involve problems in the regulation of attention.

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Cambridge Textbook of Neuroscience for Psychiatrists , pp. 225 - 232
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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