What are the types of attention disorders

The attention disorders they have been called hyprosexias, aprosexias, (main distinctions), pseudoaprosexias, paraprosexias, and hyperprosexias. Depending on the type, we find one type of characteristics or others. For this reason, in this Online Psychology article we are going to discover you what are the types of attention disorders discovering the most common and studied.

They suppose the maximum reduction of the attentive capacity, and it can be observed mainly in agitations and storms.

The hyprosexias collect a wide variation of disorders, depending on the degree of affectation of care. They would be the following:

Distractability

It consists of the appearance of sudden changes in attention, of a marked instability of the attentional capacity. Attention is focused for a short time and on many stimuli. It translates at a motor level into continuous agitation, being one of the central features of the infantile hyperkinetic syndrome.

Distractibility of organic origin usually appears in twilight patients, it is frequent also in states of intoxication by alcohol and drugs, in addition to also appearing in states maniacs.

Negligence

Neglect syndrome is defined by the presence of inattention, akinesia, and hemispatial neglect. The Left Spatial Hemineglect syndrome appears as an inability to attend to stimuli presented on the contralateral side to the lesion, in response to parietal lesions of the right hemisphere, and this results in patients not attending to stimuli that appear in the left half of their field visual.

Sometimes the patient does not attend to any stimulation that appears on the left side of the visual field, and at other times inattention only occurs in some areas. The eyes of these patients function normally but present problems in the internal representation of space.

Hemineglect syndrome consists of four components main:

• Hemi-inattention: Inability to respond to stimuli presented contralaterally to the injury
• Extinction: Defects in the detection of contralateral stimuli
• Hemiakinesia: Inability to initiate an action towards the contralateral space
• Neglect: The patient can omit half of it contralateral to the lesion.

Attention Fatigue

Easy exhaustion of attention, usually occurs in post-traumatic neurasthenia and certain brain tumors or dementia processes.

Apathy

It is the alteration of attention that appears in asthenic-apathetic pictures. Attention remains with difficulty on stimuli. It is characterized by difficulty in maintaining attention due to extreme fatigue, need for sleep, states of malnutrition or overdose of psychotropic drugs. It also usually appears in diffuse degenerative processes.

Apathetic inattention is defined by difficulty in maintaining attention due to extreme fatigue, need for sleep, states of malnutrition, or overdose of psychotropic drugs. It also usually appears in diffuse degenerative processes, both cortical and subcortical. Motivational inattention tends to appear, on the other hand, in patients with severe personality disorders.

Attention perplexity

It supposes a qualitative alteration of the attention. The subject does not achieve the synthesis of the content of attention, cannot grasp the concrete meaning of the phenomena and their effective relationships.

The pseudoaprosexias define clinical situations that apparently constitute a true aprosexia. Attention seems absent, without However, it is really preserved and many times what the subject is looking for is a reaction in their relatives or relatives. For example, we can find this picture in disorders such as Ganser syndrome and hysterical behaviors.

The paraprosexias describe the abnormal direction of attention seen in hypochondria.

The hyperprosexias describe the excessive and transitory focalizations of attention that appear in the course of altered states of consciousness characterized by hyperlucency and extreme vigilance.

Jiménez and López in their compedio de psicopatología (1979) distinguish between quantitative and qualitative abnormalities.

The quantitative abnormalities are:

• Elevation of the threshold of attention: attention is not awakened if it is not with intense stimuli
• Indifference: Lack of attention to be interested in events, the stimuli that arouse interest in normal situations are ineffective.
• Attention instability (distractibility or hyperprosexia). The term hyperprosexia is used as a synonym for distraction and attention instability.

This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.