[Cognition disorders related to psychotropic treatments]

Evaluation of cognitive disorders induced by treatment with psychotropic drugs is complex due to the involvement of several factors that can intervene in the pathogenesis and the evaluation of these disorders. Nevertheless, studies are numerous in the field, and we present the main reports. Most studies evaluating the influence of psychotropic drugs in healthy subjects indicate the existence of cognitive changes. On the contrary, aside from the effect of tranquillizers, and the sedative effect and/or the anticholinergic action of certain psychotropic drugs, in treated patients the individual responsibility of these drugs in cognitive disorders appears to have been often overestimated.