Ask the Editor: Can Antipsychotics Enhance Cognition?
The Carlat Psychiatry Report, Volume 17, Number 5, May 2019
https://www.thecarlatreport.com/newsletter-issue/tcprv17n5/
Issue Links: Learning Objectives | Editorial Information
Topics: Antipsychotics | Cognition
Chris Aiken, MD.
Editor-in-Chief of The Carlat Psychiatry Report. Practicing psychiatrist, Winston-Salem, NC.
Dr. Aiken has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Unlike the typical antipsychotics, atypicals improve both cognitive and psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia, so they must have procognitive effects of their own that can be harnessed in mood disorders, ADHD, and even dementia. The problem is that the data show the opposite.
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