Psychopharmacology of attention: The impact of drugs in an age of increased distractions.

This Special Issue, Psychopharmacology of Attention: The Impact of Drugs in an Age of Increased Distractions, not only provides novel data on the relationships among attention, alcohol use, and other drug use, but also offers new insights that could inform development of potential pharmacotherapies for ADHD. The first three articles quantify effects of frequently prescribed psychostimulants in male rodents on two components of ADHD: diminished impulse control and inappropriate sensory signal processing. This Special Issue shifts to the clinical study of ADHD in the next two articles, both of which provide important caveats of prescription stimulant use. Moving beyond ADHD, this Special Issue concludes with two innovative articles describing novel aspects of the relationship between attention and, respectively, alcohol use and marijuana use. Collectively, these articles offer a translational perspective encompassing preclinical to clinical research across three species and several validated approaches to various aspects of attention. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology endorses and seeks to advance these and other novel approaches to the study of the psychopharmacology of addiction in future issues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Source Type: research