Alertness and visuospatial attention in clinical depression

Title: Alertness and Visuospatial Attention in Clinical Depression Title: Alertness and Visuospatial Attention in Clinical Depression

1) I am not sure if the trendlevel result for the influence of sad mood on one of the three visuospatial tests is justification enough for the conclusion: “...alertness and – to a lesser extend – sad mood led to left omissions in visuospatial neglect tests”. The manuscript has been changed accordingly (p.2, ll.10-12). Background: 2) In the literature, the term “unilateral neglect” seems to be c...

Alertness and visuospatial attention in clinical depression

BACKGROUND Cognitive deficits are a substantial burden in clinical depression. The present study considered dysfunction in the right-hemispheric attention network in depression, examining alertness and visuospatial attention. METHODS Three computerized visuospatial attention tests and an alertness test were administered to 16 depressive patients and 16 matched healthy controls. RESULTS Alth...

Title: Alertness and Visuospatial Attention in Clinical Depression

Visuospatial attention in myopia.

Four experiments were conducted to ascertain whether myopia is associated with deficits of visuospatial attention. In myopic and emmetropic control subjects, we studied: (1) automatic and voluntary orienting of attention, (2) focusing of attention and (3) performance on a visual search task. The results indicated that automatic orienting was defective in myopics and their performance in visual ...

Visuospatial attention in children.

Attention is the process by which we select stimuli in our environment for perception and action. The ability to orient to salient visual stimuli and to parse the visual world begins to emerge in the first few months of life and continues to evolve through childhood. This review addresses how visuospatial attention develops, is deployed, and can be damaged in children. In particular, we discuss...