Attention/Concentration, Distractibility

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What is meant by words like:

Attentive
Inattentive

Attention
Paying Attention
Inattention

and so on?

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodmi ... ntion.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/

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Attention/Concentration, Distractibility

- Refers to the patient's inability to sustain attention because of competing internal or external stimuli. The person with a brain injury may have decreased ability to inhibit competing responses. For example, a restrained patient may focus more on his arm restraint than on a task presented by a therapist; a patient asked to complete arithmetic problems may focus more on construction work taking place outside.

http://www.waiting.com/glossarya.html (Paying Attention)
http://www.waiting.com/glossarym.html (Memory)

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http://www.sportsconcussions.org/

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ADHD Inattentive

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/adhd/adhd.htm
http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-5/auditory.htm

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Contrast the above with Absence:

http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/seizures/absence.html