Seenae Eum, S Kristian Hill, Leah H Rubin, Ryan M Carnahan, James L Reilly, Elena I Ivleva, Sarah K Keedy, Carol A Tamminga, Godfrey D Pearlson, Brett A Clementz, Elliot S Gershon, Matcheri S Keshavan, Richard S E Keefe, John A Sweeney, Jeffrey R Bishop
BACKGROUND: Patients with psychotic disorders are often treated with numerous medications, many of which have anticholinergic activity. We assessed cognition in relation to the cumulative anticholinergic burden of multiple drugs included in treatment regimens of participants from the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP) study. METHOD: Clinically stable participants with schizophrenia (n=206), schizoaffective disorder (n=131), and psychotic bipolar disorder (n=146) were examined...
December 2017: Schizophrenia Research