Volume : III, Issue : V, May - 2014
Optimizing cognitive functionality in severe mental illness. An evidence–informed medicine clinician primer
Dr Joel Lamoure Rph, Dd. Fascp
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Cognition involves a series of mental activities such as seeing, attention, memory, reasoning, and problem solving and is integral to the well being of patient care and assessment. There are a variety of mental health conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and affective disorders that can diminish a patient’s ultimate goal of functionality. Functionality, which is integrally linked to cognition, covers the individual’s ability to engage in daily activities. Inability to have “clarity of thought” inherentlyturns the patient to forms of self–medication in order to advance cognition (eg: smoking) and miss medications. As medication use is the cornerstone of psychiatric interventions, selection of agents utilizing receptor affinities, patient history/response, co–morbidities and unique dosing formulations (eg: long–acting injectable) that enhance cognition should be optimized. This paper is designed to provide a primer for clinicians to optimize adherence, medication selection and identify/monitor cognitive changes in their patient population from a question–based, narrative approach.
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DOI : 10.36106/ijsr
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Dr Joel Lamoure RPh, DD. FASCP /Optimizing cognitive functionality in severe mental illness. An evidence-informed medicine clinician primer /International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.3, Issue. 5, May 2014
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Dr Joel Lamoure RPh, DD. FASCP /Optimizing cognitive functionality in severe mental illness. An evidence-informed medicine clinician primer /International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.3, Issue. 5, May 2014
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