Disorders of attention and vigilance
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Author: Dr. Ian H. Robertson, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
on Amazon.Dr. Ian H. Robertson accepted the invitation on 16 May 2007 (self-imposed deadline: 16 November 2007).
This article will briefly cover:
The human brain systems responsible for keeping attention and vigilance in the context of routine activities; it will examine the cognitive and brain mechanisms of these systems, genetic and clinical aspects in deficits in these systems and the everyday problems caused by suboptimal performance of these systems.
| Invited by: | Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia |
