The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast

The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast


Do Antipsychotics Improve Cognition?

May 27, 2019

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.