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Effects of extended abstinence on cognitive functions in tramadol‐dependent patients: A cohort study
BACKGROUND: Some pieces of the literature report impaired cognitive functioning in tramadol dependence. Whether extended abstinence improves cognitive functioning or not is not well studied. AIM: We aimed to measure the change in cognitive functioning following complete abstinence among individuals...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8411319/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34128359 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/npr2.12188 |
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author | Hassaan, Shehab H. Khalifa, Hossam Darwish, Alaa M. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Some pieces of the literature report impaired cognitive functioning in tramadol dependence. Whether extended abstinence improves cognitive functioning or not is not well studied. AIM: We aimed to measure the change in cognitive functioning following complete abstinence among individuals with tramadol dependence. METHODS: Eighty‐three male tramadol‐dependent (TD) and 57 matched healthy controls participated in this study. Cognitive functions were assessed using: The Trail making test (TMT), Wechsler Memory Scale‐Revised (WMS‐R), and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS). Patients were assessed in the first week immediately after the end of the in‐patient treatment program (T1), and after six months of sustained abstinence (T2). RESULTS: At T1, the TD group showed deficits on all tested cognitive parameters (visual attention, task switching, working memory, visual memory, verbal memory, verbal knowledge, Verbal IQ, Performance IQ, and Full‐Scale IQ) in comparison to the control group. At T2, significant improvements had occurred in all the tested parameters except performance IQ. The cognitive performance of the abstinent individuals at T2 was comparable to the control group for the verbal subsets of WMS‐R, Verbal IQ, Performance IQ, and Full‐Scale IQ. Nevertheless, it was still worse than the control group in TMT, and all other WMS subsets. CONCLUSION: tramadol dependence has negative effects on cognitive performance, which improves with extended abstinence. |
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spelling | pubmed-84113192021-09-03 Effects of extended abstinence on cognitive functions in tramadol‐dependent patients: A cohort study Hassaan, Shehab H. Khalifa, Hossam Darwish, Alaa M. Neuropsychopharmacol Rep Original Articles BACKGROUND: Some pieces of the literature report impaired cognitive functioning in tramadol dependence. Whether extended abstinence improves cognitive functioning or not is not well studied. AIM: We aimed to measure the change in cognitive functioning following complete abstinence among individuals with tramadol dependence. METHODS: Eighty‐three male tramadol‐dependent (TD) and 57 matched healthy controls participated in this study. Cognitive functions were assessed using: The Trail making test (TMT), Wechsler Memory Scale‐Revised (WMS‐R), and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS). Patients were assessed in the first week immediately after the end of the in‐patient treatment program (T1), and after six months of sustained abstinence (T2). RESULTS: At T1, the TD group showed deficits on all tested cognitive parameters (visual attention, task switching, working memory, visual memory, verbal memory, verbal knowledge, Verbal IQ, Performance IQ, and Full‐Scale IQ) in comparison to the control group. At T2, significant improvements had occurred in all the tested parameters except performance IQ. The cognitive performance of the abstinent individuals at T2 was comparable to the control group for the verbal subsets of WMS‐R, Verbal IQ, Performance IQ, and Full‐Scale IQ. Nevertheless, it was still worse than the control group in TMT, and all other WMS subsets. CONCLUSION: tramadol dependence has negative effects on cognitive performance, which improves with extended abstinence. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8411319/ /pubmed/34128359 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/npr2.12188 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Neuropsychopharmacology Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of The Japanese Society of Neuropsychopharmacology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Hassaan, Shehab H. Khalifa, Hossam Darwish, Alaa M. Effects of extended abstinence on cognitive functions in tramadol‐dependent patients: A cohort study |
title | Effects of extended abstinence on cognitive functions in tramadol‐dependent patients: A cohort study |
title_full | Effects of extended abstinence on cognitive functions in tramadol‐dependent patients: A cohort study |
title_fullStr | Effects of extended abstinence on cognitive functions in tramadol‐dependent patients: A cohort study |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of extended abstinence on cognitive functions in tramadol‐dependent patients: A cohort study |
title_short | Effects of extended abstinence on cognitive functions in tramadol‐dependent patients: A cohort study |
title_sort | effects of extended abstinence on cognitive functions in tramadol‐dependent patients: a cohort study |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8411319/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34128359 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/npr2.12188 |
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