Tetsuo Nakabayashi, Kunihiro Iwamoto, Akiko Yamaguchi, Yuki Konishi, Momoe Saji, Reiji Yoshimura, Kousuke Kanemoto, Hirofumi Aoki, Masahiko Ando, Norio Ozaki
In December 2022, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) of Japan issued and implemented the guideline for evaluating the effects of psychotropic drugs on motor vehicle driving performance. This guideline recommends the use of a tiered approach to assess clinically meaningful driving impairment. It is noted that adverse events cannot be solely explained by pharmacokinetics, as the onset and duration of these events vary. Among these adverse events, those affecting alertness, such as drowsiness caused by psychotropic drugs on driving performance, are more frequently observed during initial treatment stages and dose escalation...
April 16, 2024: Neuropsychopharmacology Reports