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.