Abstract

BERNAL, Ana; GOMEZ, Daisy; LOPEZ, Sandra  and  ACOSTA, María Rocío. Neuropsychological, neurological and psychiatric implications in a case of poisoning scopolamine. Psychol. av. discip. [online]. 2013, vol.7, n.1, pp.105-118. ISSN 1900-2386.

Abstract In recent years scopolamine intoxication cases for criminal purposes has increased, with important medical, cognitive and social sequels, that need to be studied, therefore, and given the limited research on this topic, the aim of this study was to record together the implications neurological, neuropsychological and psychiatric case of poisoning scopolamine using a single case design based on the report of scopolamine intoxication about five months of a 43 year old. For this assessment was made of the subject's cognitive performance in front of their IQ and related areas with attention, working memory, praxis, language, memory, emotion regulation and executive functions. Also applied MMPI personality test to expand the information about the subject's personality or psychiatric disorders resulting from intoxication. Among the results there were found difficulties in attention, memory, emotional control and executive functions, and is a high relationship between psychiatric and neurological area, which explains that exposure to a toxic agent that blocks the cholinergic system, especially the channels muscarinic, can cause exacerbation of premorbid psychiatric illness.

Keywords : scopolamine derivatives; neuropsychology; receptor muscarinics and mental disorders.

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