Dulling Your Mind: The Hidden Cost of Common Medications

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Cognitive Dulling is a not-uncommon side effect of medication that often goes unnoticed when it is mild-to-moderate, despite negative consequences to academic, occupational, and even social functioning. When more severe, patients will complain of trouble paying attention, or remembering things or making decisions, having no idea that what is causing their intellectual symptoms is lurking in the medicine cabinet. Join me as I discuss the phenomenon of cognitive dulling due to medication, and reveal how specific classes of drugs, and select members from those categories, negatively impact thought, speech, behavior and judgment.

00:00 Intro
00:59 Reversible Dementia
02:00 Sedation
02:37 Cannabis
03:18 Misattribution
04:19 Tip-of-the-Tongue
05:06 Slurring, Stuttering & Stammering
06:21 Serotonin vs. Dopamine
07:40 Judging Timespans
09:43 Patients Don't Even Know
11:19 Insidiousness
12:06 The Usual Suspects
12:47 Antidepressants
14:02 Synergy
14:16 Antipsychotics
15:16 Lithium
16:04 Depakote
17:14 Anti-Anxiety Agents (Benzos)
18:08 Anti-Epileptics
18:23 Topamax (topiramate
20:22 Anticholinergics
21:31 Polypharmacy
21:52 Opiates
22:28 "Chemo Brain"
22:37 Take-home Messages
23:36 Solutions