Attention Development and Psychopathology

Part 1 Introduction: attention, development and psychopathology - bridging disciplines, Enns and Burack. Part 2 The development of attention across the lifespan: development of visual attention, Atkinson and Hood; selective attention to novelty as a measure of information processing across the lifespan, Fagan et al; selective attention over the lifespan Brodeur et al. Part 3 Infancy, attention and psychopathology: attention regulation in infants born at risk - prematurity and prenatal cocaine exposure, Mayes and Bornstein; attention and information processing in infants with Down syndrome, Zelazo and Stack; conceptual relations between attentional processes in infants and children with attention- deficit/hyperactivity disorder - a problem-solving approach, Coldren and Corradetti. Part 4 Childhood, attention and psychopathology: teratogenic effects of alcohol on attention, Kopera-Frye, Olson and Streissguth; attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in mental retardation - nature of attention deficits, Pearson et al; a componential view of executive dysfunction in autism - review of recent evidence, Bryson et al. Part 5 Adulthood, attention and psychopathology: paying attention to the brain - the study of selective visual attention in cognitive neuroscience, Kingstone et al; attention in aging and Alzheimer's disease - behaviour and neural systems, Greenwood and Parasuraman; attentional functioning in individuals diagnozed as at risk for schizophrenia, Steffy and Oakman; information processing in anxiety and depression - a cognitive- developmental perspective, Gotlib and MacLeod; attentional functioning of psychopathic individuals - current evidence and developmental implications, Kosson and Harpur.