What is "hyperprosexia"

n. (context medicine English) excessive attention; an abnormal state in which a person concentrates on one thing to the exclusion of everything else.

Aprosexia, hyperprosexia, and paraprosexia are closely related medical and neuro- psychiatric phenomena associated with attention and concentration. They typically occur in patients suffering traumatic brain injuries.

• Aprosexia is an abnormal inability to pay attention, characterized by a near-complete indifference to everything.
• Hyperprosexia is the abnormal state in which a person concentrates on one thing to the exclusion of everything else.
• Paraprosexia is the inability to pay attention to any one thing (a state of constant distraction).