Human Clinical Studies Of Attention Disorders

在过去两年中，该科对这一项目的重点已转向审议各种注意力障碍，这些障碍伴随着神经精神、代谢、遗传、创伤和环境造成的障碍。我们提出了注意力障碍的病因学模型，并将其应用于不同的环境。最近，我们将它应用于特发性(即遗传性)癫痫障碍的注意力紊乱模型，在那里它似乎是一个非常有用的启发式方法。该模型已作为纽约科学院出版的关于成人注意力缺陷障碍的一卷书的特邀章节出版。(见下文出版物)。 我们还为《心理评估综合手册》贡献了两个关于注意力评估的受邀章节--一个是成人的，一个是儿童的。这些资料现已出版。 此外，我们还准备了一个关于认知因素和攻击行为之间关系的特邀章节，供编辑的犯罪行为神经生物学卷使用。

During the past two years, the emphasis on this project in the Section has shifted to consideration of the various disorders of attention that are accompaniments of neuropsychiatric, metabolic, genetic, trauma-induced and environmentally-caused disorders. We have presented a model for a nosology of disorders of attention, and have applied it in various contexts. Most recently, we have applied it to a model of disordered attention in idiopathic (i.e., genetic) seizure disorders, where it seems to be a very useful heuristic. The model has been published as an invited chapter in a volume published by the NY Academy of Sciences on Adult Attention Deficit Disorder. (See publication below). We have also contributed two invited chapters on the assessment of attention--one in adults and one in children--for the Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment. These have now been published. In addition, we prepared an invited chapter on the relation between cognitve factors and aggressive behavior for an edited volume on the neurobiology of criminal behavior.