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Cognitive analysis of neuropharmacological treatments
Author(s) -
Weingartner Herbert,
Strupp Barbara J.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
drug development research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.582
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1098-2299
pISSN - 0272-4391
DOI - 10.1002/ddr.430040511
Subject(s) - cognition , affect (linguistics) , drug , psychology , neuroscience , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , communication
Several types of drug strategies have been investigated because they may be potentially valuable in the treatment of cognitive dysfunctions. Research efforts in this area have primarily considered how such drugs alter specific systems in the central nervous system and how these may relate to changes in behavior of laboratory animals. For the effective development of cognitively focused drug treatments, it is necessary that we appreciate the ways that drugs might alter different and specific cognitive systems. A number of methods of approach can be used to effectively define and contrast the psychobiological determinants of the cognitive response of drug treatments. These approaches are built upon findings that have shown that 1) cognitive failures in various syndromes are determined by different mechanisms 2) components of information processing are psychologically and biologically distinct; and 3) different types of nonspecific changes produced by a drug can differentially affect components of cognition.