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'''Aprosexia''', '''Hyperprosexia''', and '''Paraprosexia''' are closely related psychological and [[neurology|neuro]]-[[psychiatry|psychiatric]] phenomena associated with [[attention]] and [[concentration]]. They typically occurs in patients suffering traumatic brain injuries.
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'''Aprosexia''', '''Hyperprosexia''', and '''Paraprosexia''' are closely related psychological and [[neurology|neuro]]-[[psychiatry|psychiatric]] phenomena associated with [[attention]] and [[concentration]]. They typically occurs in patients suffering traumatic brain injuries or sensory deficits.
   
'''Aprosexia''' is an abnormal inability to pay attention, characterized by a near-complete indifference to everything.
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*'''Aprosexia''' is an abnormal inability to pay attention,
   
'''Hyperprosexia''' is the abnormal state in which a person concentrates on one thing to the exclusion of everything else.
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*'''Hyperprosexia''' is the abnormal state in which a person concentrates on one thing to the exclusion of everything else.
   
'''Paraprosexia''' is the inability to pay attention to any one thing (a state of constant
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*'''Paraprosexia''' is the inability to pay attention to any one thing (a state of constant
 
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Aprosexia, Hyperprosexia, and Paraprosexia are closely related psychological and neuro-psychiatric phenomena associated with attention and concentration. They typically occurs in patients suffering traumatic brain injuries or sensory deficits.

  • Aprosexia is an abnormal inability to pay attention,
  • Hyperprosexia is the abnormal state in which a person concentrates on one thing to the exclusion of everything else.
  • Paraprosexia is the inability to pay attention to any one thing (a state of constant

distraction).

Etiology

Patients suffering traumatic brain injury experience profound disturbance of the basic functions of the cognitive, behavioral, emotional and intellectual systems. Such patients' ability to regulate interaction between the ego and the external world is greatly diminished and they typically exhibit inflexible, concrete and sometimes inappropriate behaviors.

References

Attention
Aspects of attention
Absent-mindedness | Attentional control | Attention span | Attentional shift | Attention management | Attentional blink | Attentional bias | Attention economy | Attention and emotion | Attention optimization | Change blindness | Concentration |Dichotic listening | Directed attention fatigue | Distraction | Distractibility | Divided attention | Hyperfocus | Inattentional blindness | Mindfulness |Mind-wandering | Meditation | Salience | Selective attention | Selective inattention | Signal detection theory | Sustained attention | Vigilance | Visual search |
Developmental aspects of attention
centration | [[]] |
Neuroanatomy of attention
Attention versus memory in prefrontal cortex | Default mode network | Dorsal attention network | Medial geniculate nucleus | | Neural mechanisms | Ventral attention network | Intraparietal sulcus |
Neurochemistry of attention
Glutamatergic system  | [[]] |
Attention in clinical settings
ADHD | ADHD contoversy | ADD | AADD | Attention and aging | Attention restoration theory | Attention seeking | Attention training | Centering | Distractability | Hypervigilance | Hyperprosexia | Cognitive-shifting | Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy |
Attention in educational settings
Concentration |
Assessing attention
Benton | Continuous Performance Task | TOMM | Wechsler Memory Scale |
Treating attention problems
CBT | Psychotherapy |
Prominant workers in attention
Baddeley | Broadbent | [[]] | Treisman | Cave |
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