About this Research Topic
In the fields of psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience, cognition has a central role and is fundamental to intellectual functions.
Cognitive functions include many varied and complex brain activities, and the main accepted domains are attention, memory, and executive functions. Attention, learning, and memory are highly integrated and are dynamically interactive processes. For example, disruption of attentional abilities is reflected in impaired learning and memory. Executive functions in turn include reasoning, planning, working memory, problem-solving and processing speed, just to name a few.
Medications helpful in treating infections, cancer, endocrine dysfunction, and psychiatric conditions among other neurological diseases, have been reported to have adverse drug reactions and thus side effects, mimicking a state of cognitive impairments and dementia-like progression of patients.
This Collection aims at gathering knowledge of the effects of medicinal drugs on cognitive functions in psychiatric and neurological diseases where the use of hypnotic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant, antipsychotic, or anti-Parkinson medications can trigger the desired effects or undesired cognitive consequences.
Therefore, all these aspects are areas of interest in this research topic, including, but not limited to, the effects of medicinal drugs on cognitive functions.
Cognitive functions include many varied and complex brain activities, and the main accepted domains are attention, memory, and executive functions. Attention, learning, and memory are highly integrated and are dynamically interactive processes. For example, disruption of attentional abilities is reflected in impaired learning and memory. Executive functions in turn include reasoning, planning, working memory, problem-solving and processing speed, just to name a few.
Medications helpful in treating infections, cancer, endocrine dysfunction, and psychiatric conditions among other neurological diseases, have been reported to have adverse drug reactions and thus side effects, mimicking a state of cognitive impairments and dementia-like progression of patients.
This Collection aims at gathering knowledge of the effects of medicinal drugs on cognitive functions in psychiatric and neurological diseases where the use of hypnotic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant, antipsychotic, or anti-Parkinson medications can trigger the desired effects or undesired cognitive consequences.
Therefore, all these aspects are areas of interest in this research topic, including, but not limited to, the effects of medicinal drugs on cognitive functions.
Keywords: medicinal drugs, memory, cognitive functions, psychiatric disease, neurological disease
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