How Useful Is Eye-Tracking in the Early Detection of Developmental and Adult Neurocognitive Disorders?
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Developmental Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 1332
Special Issue Editors
Interests: dementia; Alzheimer’s disease; schizophrenia; Parkinsons’s disease; saccade; eye-tracking; attention; ageing; inhibitory control
Interests: neurological diseases; neuroscience; neurobiology; neurobiology and brain physiology; neurodegeneration; neurophysiology; neurodegenerative diseases; physiology; neuroimaging; clinical neurology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The last 20 years have seen an exponential rise in the number of studies that have engaged in the search for dysfunctions across a diverse range of neurocognitive disorders with the use of eye-tracking, either exclusively or in combination with other neuroscientific techniques such as, EEG, fMRI, MEG, TMS or traditional batteries of cognitive tests. This Special Issue will highlight promising avenues of current research with the potential for significant clinical impact, while addressing several key challenges for the future.
Eye-tracking has a number of attractive properties that make it a model system for the study of brain disorders. It is both non-invasive and cost effective, and a range of established paradigms have been developed that can be readily implemented in both developmental and ageing research. The fact that essentially identical task formats are used in animal studies means that human studies can build on the foundation of detailed underlying neuronal, chemical, and pharmacological mechanisms that are linked to sensorimotor, learning and reward operations. Is the stage therefore set for a change towards the domain of translational research? Although the future looks bright, it is not clear how far we have progressed towards a time when these techniques can be used to facilitate early diagnosis and therapeutic interventions. What have we learned about the underlying cognitive processes in neurocognitive disorders? What future advances are required before we can hope to see widespread clinical applications? This Special Issue will highlight promising avenues of research and outline the major challenges that lie ahead. A new generation of international researchers are encouraged to respond to these challenges by ensuring that the research benefits have a global reach in the fight to reduce inequalities in health outcomes. We invite authors to submit original research, review articles, and short communications on these topics for this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Trevor Crawford
Prof. Dr. Chrystalina Antoniades
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- eye tracking
- neurodevelopmental disease
- neurocognitive disorders
- psychiatric disease
- cognitive impairment
